Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best of Both. Equally nimble, Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah raced around Manhattan shaking black hands and white hands at every opportunity. Casting himself in the role of mother hen to the 15 newly emerged African states, U.S.-educated Nkrumah strode from his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria alternately dressed in Western business suits and Ghanaian ceremonial robes, and seemed to promise to fellow Africans the best of both worlds...
Later, Tito darted across town to the Waldorf to see Ike, who had just finished lunching with delegates of all Latin American nations (not invited: Cuba, the Dominican Republic). Ike had also had a quick exchange of pleasantries with Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala and Lebanon's Premier Saeb Salam. Tito and Ike broke the ice with a discussion of cattle breeding, parted on Ike's invitation to Tito to travel freely in the U.S. during his stay...
...Africa and Asia. For example, there seems to be a lingering suspicion in Washington that not being anti-Communist somehow amounts to the same thing as being pro-Communist. This attitude is apparently shared by Secretary of State Herter, who commented Saturday that a speech by Ghanan President Kwame Nkrumah had "marked him as very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc." Similar doubts as to the true leanings of Indonesian President Sukarno have developed. And finally, one gets the impression that the State Department views the molding of the neutralist nations into a political entity with far more apprehension than...
...Others were coming out of national pride: for the leaders of nine new African nations* of the French community, the lure was a chance to preside at their countries' U.N. debut-and, judging from hints out of Washington, to meet Dwight Eisenhower. Ghana's U.S.-educated President Kwame Nkrumah was coming to advance his own claims to leadership of all the Africans...
...Kwame Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, the U.A.R.'s Nasser and Yugoslavia's Tito had already announced that they would be in New York, and Ceylon's Mrs. Bandaranaike was making interested noises. In Latin America, the only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...