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AFRICA. President Kennedy made it a point to give the red-carpet treatment to Ghana's visiting President Kwame Nkrumah, who, only last fall, was given short shrift by Former Secretary of State Christian Herter (who said that Nkrumah was "very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc"). Kennedy, Rusk & Co. chose to put the best possible light on Nkrumah's speech last week to the United Nations lending qualified support to the U.N.'s peace-seeking attempts in the Congo. Kennedy met Nkrumah at the airport, exchanged warm greetings, took him to the White House for "fruitful...
Asked by a newsman if he is proCommunist, Nkrumah replied: "Why do they say I'm proCommunist? That's what I don't understand. Be careful. Don't equate Communism or being Communist with African nationalism. It is unfair." Could Nkrumah see any difference between the attitudes of the Kennedy and Eisenhower Administrations? Answer: "That I can see quite clearly. The general outlook portends something good and hopeful for both sides...
...tipping the weight of the Assembly toward the neutralists, wanted a bigger role in the Security Council, the committees, and the Secretariat as well. "And they don't even have enough trained people to run their own countries," griped one Secretariat oldtimer. This week Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah arrives in Manhattan to advance his pet scheme that an "all-Africa command" run the U.N. show in the Congo...
...willing to close his eyes to outrages by Lumumbaist bullyboys, while taking every opportunity to denounce anti-Lumumba regimes. The U.N. force itself was dangerously close to disintegration, with Morocco and Guinea withdrawing their troops, and professional meddlers such as Nasser and Ghana's Nkrumah trying to take a hand in the Congo's internal affairs. Most of all, there seemed to be no end in sight under the present ground rules. For too long, U.N. troops, operating under fuzzy, limited orders, had stood listlessly by as the Congolese shot and stabbed one another; often...
...last time Patrice Lumumba was seen alive by anyone but his captors was Jan. 17. It was the low point in the career of a man who had dreamed of bossing a united Congo in the grand style of the man whom he admired, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. He had failed, but as a Western diplomat put it, "being the best demagogue around, he kept anybody else from running it either." Taken from a military prison in Thysville, where in typical fashion he had almost fast-talked his guards into mutiny, Lumumba was flown to Elisabethville, hauled...