Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest the Big Five of neutralism-U.A.R.'s Nasser, India's Nehru, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno and Yugoslavia's Tito as Men of the Year...
...indignantly denied that he was a Communist, described himself as no more than a pious Presbyterian. He was a familiar of the U.N.'s corridors, arguing that only he represented the will of the French Cameroun people. He turned up in Moscow, was always welcomed by Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana...
...General Assembly, the new African nations had rallied to the defense of the U.N. and Hammarskjold himself. But the 70-0 Assembly vote upholding Hammarskjold obscured the fact that many Africans still felt that Lumumba was the legitimate head of the Congolese government. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea's Sekou Toure demanded Lumumba's return for reasons of their own-he is an old pal. But many others argued simply that he was the only man who had won an election...
...seem to bother the growing number of Lumumba supporters among the U.N.'s neutral-nation membership; a frequent Lumumba visitor last week was Metrol A. Rahman chargé d'affaires of India, reflecting the likelihood that Jawaharlal Nehru has bought the line of Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Touré that the only man to run the Congo is Patrice Lumumba...
...beliefs: 1) they see the U.N. as the bulwark of their independence, 2) they fear nuclear doom from the angry opposition of East and West, 3) they do not want to be pushed around by the great powers. The Big Five of neutralism-Tito of Yugoslavia, Nehru of India, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia -are magnetic, colorful and messianic personalities, but too much so. The most effective work has often been done by second-echelon diplomats: men like Burma's U Thant, Nepal's Rishikesh Shaha and Tunisia's Mongi Slim...