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...ancient wrongs. Since moderation and common sense are not the stuff that headlines are made of, the world's eyes slid past Nigeria to focus worriedly on the imperialistic elbowings of Ghana's Nkrumah, on the heedless plunge into Marxism taken by Guinea's Sékou Touré and above all, on the bloody chaos in the Congo...
...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...
...Communist, described himself as no more than a pious Presbyterian. He was a familiar of the U.N.'s corridors, arguing that only he represented the will of the French Cameroun people. He turned up in Moscow, was always welcomed by Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and Sékou...
...black leaders of Africa's emerging new nations endlessly complain that the outside world too often judges whose side they are on in the East-West struggle by whose aid they accept. Guinea's Red-leaning President Sékou Touré loudly proclaims that he is on no side, stubbornly insists he signed up for aid from Russia ($35 million) and Red China ($25 million) and brought in scores of Communist technicians, simply because he needed the money and expert advice...
...pact with West Germany. And a fortnight after the U.S. agreement was signed, Guinea's President Touré rose in the U.N. Assembly to criticize Khrushchev's bullying, shoe-thumping tactics. Added up, it all revived the hopes of many that the Red tint in Sékou Touré's cloak of "neutralism" was not necessarily permanent...