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Meanwhile, the 14th Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers managed to work its way through an unexciting agenda. Predictably, the only bitter clash of the conference concerned the future of Rhodesia, which is clamoring for independence. Led by Ghana's Nkrumah, the black African Commonwealth nations demanded that Britain head off efforts by the colony's Prime Minister, Ian Smith, to ensure that Rhodesia's constitution will perpetuate white supremacy. The Africans wanted Britain to order one-man, one-vote elections within three months' time. Wilson, while promising to work toward majority rule by Rhodesia...
...send a five-nation team, headed by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, to Hanoi, Saigon, Peking, Moscow and Washington to seek a way to end the war. The team's spread of political ideologies, ranging from the demagogic leftism of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah through the balanced anti-Communism of Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, would seem to guarantee the group a hearing in every capital. After all, the argument ran, the Commonwealth speaks for a quarter of the world's population, hence represents a microcosm of world opinion...
...Nkrumah said he'd be delighted to go, but demanded that Commonwealth-member Australia first withdraw her 900 troops from South Viet Nam. Even Moscow got into the act with an Izvestia editorial that took the Commonwealth to task for a lack of "clarity." After all, the Russians sniffed, how can a fact-finding committee be truly impartial if it doesn't even condemn the U.S. in advance? "There is no demand [in the proposal] to withdraw American troops from Viet Nam," chided Izvestia, "nor to stop the barbarian bombardments of North Viet...
...heads would roll the next time around. Chinese diplomats in Dar es Salaam, trying discreetly to recruit the Premier's next host, found that Guinea's Sékou Touré felt that a visit from Chou at this time might be "inconvenient." Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was "too busy." Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Nigeria were also not interested...
Early this year, Nkrumah arranged to have 99.9% of the electorate approve a one-party constitution, and he dissolved Parliament elected before Ghana gained independence eight years ago. His Convention People's Party then nominated 198 illustrious candi dates (including U.N. Delegate Alex Quaison-Sackey and Margaret Martei, secretary of the Women's Council), and last week Nkrumah simply declared them all elected-for lack of opposition. Explained Spark, the party weekly: "This will be an object lesson to all Africa on how democracy is organized and made to work smoothly and effectively under a one-party state...