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...frankly hoped and expected that most of the colonies would prefer to settle for autonomy within the French Community. But twelve members have disconcertingly taken him at his word, and France has accepted the situation with grace. Last April, the Malagasy Republic on the island of Madagascar and the Mali Federation, a union of the former French West African colonies of Senegal and Sudan, sought and were granted their complete sovereignty. In the next two weeks, eight other Community members will become independent nations: Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and Niger, which are loosely grouped into the Council...
...matter of hours, Hammarskjold had pledges of troops from Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Tunisia and Ethiopia; the first Ghanaian detachment was in Leopoldville within 24 hours. From Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian...
...northwest, the Mali Federation -Senegal and the Sudanese Republic-declared itself free...
Marriage Revealed. Mamadou Dia.49, Premier of the Republic of Senegal and Vice President of the Federation of Mali; and Salaam Murad, 33, a Lebanese white schoolteacher; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beirut on June 15 in a proxy wedding (Dia's representative: Senegalese Finance Minister Mas Bokani...
Guinea and newly independent Cameroon brawled openly. Rising to attack the Mali Federation-Libya, Tunisia and Morocco-for permitting foreign bases on their soil, Guinea's Foreign Affairs Chief Abdoulaye Diallo also lit into Cameroon for permitting French troops to stay. Cameroon Delegate Charles Okala promptly pointed out that the Guinea police state had accepted arms from Czechoslovakia, hinting at the well-known fact that some of these weapons ended up in the hands of dissident Cameroon tribes men. "If there are troops in Cameroon, whose fault is it?" Okala demanded. "We have all tried...