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Charles de Gaulle climbed aboard an Air France DC-8 last week and headed eastward around the world. His trip was to last 19 days, and it would undoubt edly bring the glory of enlightened Gaul to three continents. In Ethiopia he was to confer with Emperor Haile Selassie on the future of Africa. In Cambodia he was to meet Prince Norodom Sihanouk, presumably to condemn the war in Viet Nam. In Tahiti he was to watch the detonation of the eighth nuclear device of his celebrated force de frappe...
...French Somaliland (pop. 100,000), a tiny toothmark of rocks, desert and hot wind located on the African side of the mouth of the Red Sea. Its only notable product is a wine concocted from the doom palm, its principal source of income a narrow-gauge railway from Ethiopia to Djibouti's excellent port. Offered its independence in 1958, French Somaliland turned it down, and is now the only French colony in Africa. Three-quarters of the voters in a national plebiscite elected to retain their ties with France...
...nations with grievances still flock to it in hopes of getting moral backing for their causes.* In 1960, Liberia and Ethiopia asked the court for a judgment on South Africa's repressive racial apartheid. Last week, after six years of painful deliberation, 6,000 pages of evidence and a legal cost to all sides of almost $18 million, the court decided not to take up apartheid at all, dismissed the case on a technicality...
...South Africa by the League of Nations in 1920. South Africa was to oversee the neighboring former German territory of South West Africa, subject to the approval of the League of Nations and later the United Nations. As "interested parties" representing the 36 in dependent states of black Africa, Ethiopia and Liberia claimed that South Africa had violated its mandate by imposing racial separation on the territory's 400,000 nonwhites. A victory for Liberia and Ethiopia would have paved the way for an appeal to the United Nations and possibly sanctions against South Africa. Instead, the court ruled...
...evidence points in a less favorable direction. Sir Percy should have accepted the court's original ruling that it did have jurisdiction, and gone on to examine the content of Ethiopia's and Liberia's complaints. Instead his decision to throw the case out of court must be interpreted as a political move to avoid a condemnation of apartheid. The final decision attained what Lewis called "a level of sophistication even the U.S. Supreme Court has failed to reach." Ethiopia and Liberia had legal standing enough to merit a ruling...