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...India from any concern with the cold war between the West and Communism, was ending in disaster. Nearly shattered was the morally arrogant pose from which he had endlessly lectured the West on the need for peaceful coexistence with Communism. Above all. the Indian people, fiercely proud of their nationhood, have been deeply humiliated and shaken by the hated Chinese...
Though Harold Macmillan's government says it is eager to grant Kenya its independence as soon as possible, such problems as defining its frontiers and drawing up an acceptable constitution now seem certain to delay nationhood until mid-1964. Renison favored a cautious approach to Uhuru. But Whitehall plainly felt that he was too unpopular to sell it to the Africans or to hold together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance...
...Arab quarter of Oran, barefoot youngsters last week piped a bitter lament learned from their parents: "We fought for independence, we won it, we lost it two months later." In Algeria's fifth month of nationhood, their chant had almost become a national anthem...
...Under Secretary, who was himself responsible for organizing the operation in the Congo, called the Congo a country absolutely unprepared for in- "a bitter experience" in what can befall dependence. At the time the Republic gained nationhood, there were but 17 university graduates in the entire country...
From the U.S. came Vice President Lyndon Johnson, drawling greetings from President Kennedy. L.B.J. shook all hands in reach, passed out little American and Jamaican flags, talked help. Both British and U.S. officials pledged to help Jamaica get two essential credentials of nationhood -membership in the U.N. and in the Organization of American States...