Word: colonialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week there was strong suspicion that the snake had turned against the Congo's new Premier, Moise Tshombe. To prove himself a true-black African leader and dispel accusations of colonialist stoogery, Katanga's onetime secessionist leader planned to attend this week's meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Cairo. Tshombe knew he had many enemies in the 34 African states comprising the O.A.U., but felt he could win sympathy from the group's conservative members and hold his own with the rest through the sheer force of his considerable personal charm...
...spite of the local European reaction, there were no neo-colonialist overtones. The British offered to withdraw immediately on the wishes of the Tanganyika government, and the President, Julius K. Nyerere' dispelled further doubts in a speech given Saturday afternoon. "Any independent country is able to ask for the help of another independent country," he said. "Talk that the British have come back to rule Tanganyika again is rubbish...
...Guinea's quest for autonomy was hastened by the freedom fad among the world's underdeveloped nations. Fearful of being branded colonialist, Australia, which administers both territories, reluctantly stepped up its self-government timetable. Seven months ago, 400 electoral teams began penetrating the interior to teach the natives the rudiments of democracy...
...diplomacy has left him without markets for some 27 per cent of his exports. There seems little doubt which way be will turn. Having found a new set of enemies, he has no need of old ones. Sukarno, the virulent anti-colonialist, the man who fought the Dutch so bitterly for thirty years, will almost certainly seek his new markets in Holland...
...wording has successfully invited Belgian and British sympathy by clouding over the issue of colonialism which delights African nationalists but infuriates European conservative parliamentarians. In short, the Thant strategy has finally won over all the Western allies save France, who sticks proudly to her defiance of anti-colonialist ideology and her refusal to believe that any good can come from U.N. military coercion...