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Already Hammarskjold was turning what one aide describes as "his Renaissance mind, fast and flexible," to the disasters he thought might occur as Africa's once-colonial states gained independent nationhood. Back in 1956 he had strongly urged the creation of a U.N. international professional and technical civil service for new nations that lacked competent officials. The idea was part of Hammarskjold's pet theory of "preventive diplomacy," which he defines as "smelling conflict in the air before it is on your table." Sniffing the troubled air, Hammarskjold last winter took a six-week tour of Africa, including...
Denouncing "premature nationhood," Elliott outlined a three-point program for cultural aid. A nation, he noted, first must be educated to discharge its international responsibilities and to develop its own resources. The United States then should combat Communist "pug-washing," fostering open forum discussion to develop responsible opinion. As the third objective, this nation should act "to better create a middle class power" of technicians and administrators in backward areas...
...colonies on Africa's horn, the country is largely a desert plateau, studded with anthills as tall as a man, and roamed by a Moslem nomadic people whose per capita income from their herds is just $10 a year. In a way, Somalia's only asset for nationhood is a small group of capable, moderate leaders. They bear no grudge against the West, because they bear no scars of a struggle for independence...
...chiefs who clearly foresaw the loss of their power in a single nation run from Accra. In Nigeria, the ancient feud between the Yoruba of the west and the Ibo of the east, and their joint contempt for the Moslems in the north, is a major obstacle to peaceful nationhood. Kenya's warlike Masai dread the thought of national power in the hands of the clever Kikuyu; and for the majestic (6 ft. 6 in.) but backward Watutsi of Ruanda-Urundi, education and all the talk of one-manone-vote sounds suspiciously like the death knell for four centuries...
...Prime Minister beamed as he walked back to his box after inspecting the prize cattle at the annual Rand Show in Johannesburg's Milner Park. It was a warm, sunny Saturday, and Hendrik Verwoerd's speech had been particularly suitable for the 50th anniversary of South African nationhood. "We shall not be killed!" he shouted to the thousands of whites in the grandstand. "We shall fight for our existence, and we shall survive." He took his seat beside his wife Betsie, not noticing David Pratt, a wispy, 54-year-old Transvaal farmer in green tweeds, who clambered briskly...