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Most of the students were studying in France on scholarships provided by the French government. Their scholarships were cut off as a result of their participation in a "protest strike" in May, 1956 against French colonialist policy...
...junkets are free, the rice wine good, and the propaganda heady for the delegates of emerging young nations whose economic problems and recent revolutionary triumphs seem so similar to those Red China itself has experienced. Yellow skin is also an advantage in places where the classic colonialist enemy bears a clear Caucasian label. Feted in Peking two months ago, Guinea's Sékou Touré seemed more cordially at ease than he was on his later visit to Moscow...
...which was debating Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba's appeal for U.N. troops to restore order. By contrast with the convention's gassy meanderings and tiresome rigmarole, Lodge's arguments in favor of sending U.N. troops, and his telling retorts to Soviet rumblings about a "colonialist conspiracy" seemed the real world...
Though Russia's Arkady Sobolev routinely charged that the U.S., Britain and France were engaged in a "colonialist conspiracy," in the end Russia was forced to vote for the resolution, which passed 8-0 (Britain, France and Nationalist China abstained). Within hours, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had the first contingents of a 6,000-man force on their...
...Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 50, there seems to be one thing wrong with little (pop. 4,900,000) Ghana: it makes him feel hemmed in. Months ago he began railing at the new states of West Africa to join him in a Union of African States to foil a "colonialist plot" that aimed at "Balkanizing" the continent. His neighbors, fearing that Nkrumah had in mind a little colonizing of his own, brushed aside the scheme. Undaunted, Nkrumah has even written his Pan-African hopes into a new constitution that would give him power to dissolve Parliament and veto its acts...