Word: nationhoods
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...indiscriminately invoked by any territory or province. Neither the Congo nor Katanga is a nation in anything like the modern sense, but, as the U.S. sees it, the Congo as a whole, with its continuous 75-year history as a Belgian colony, has a more sensible claim to nationhood than one of its parts...
...everyone had forgotten the savagery that lay just beneath the Congo veneer of nationhood. Like an ugly scene glimpsed by the lightning of hot equatorial skies, the Congo government again stood revealed as incapable of governing, its army a disorganized rabble...
...Minister, and the verbal swagger reflected his country's pride in being Africa's most populous nation (40 million). It also reflected the fact that the new, half-civilized African states do not enter the world stage with any shyness. Only one year after his land reached nationhood, Wachuku could stand before the U.N. to lecture the world: "I am serving notice..." (to South Africa), "Things we want..." (from Portugal...
Tshombe came to Coquilhatville with the air of a man who was going to dictate his own terms. He declared that he would accept only a confederation in which Katanga would have nationhood of its own (and spend its own money). He mocked Kasavubu's willingness to cooperate with the U.N., got down on his knees to mime Kasavubu's attitude for news photographers. Once arrested, his mood changed. He became all oozing contrition. He begged for permission to rejoin the formal talks. The leaders refused but hauled him down from his villa prison for a private tongue...
...Russians and Eastern Europeans were varity in black Africa, and, though occasional African nationalists turned up in Moscow to study, not one Pravda Page in so mentioned the continent's name. Last week, everywhere Western diplomats turned. Communist weeds were sprouting in the freshly plowed soil of African nationhood Guinea's Sekou Toure turned to the East for aid after France responded to his demand for independence by withdrawing everything down to the Government House furniture NOW he has Czechs operating his airports, Poles running his public works and East Germans building him a big new radio station...