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...Ghana, President Kwame Nkrumah's favorite newspapers are the Ghanaian Times and the Evening News. They should be. They never fail to address him as Osagyefo (Redeemer), the title that most tickles Nkrumah's vanity. They print his speeches and praise his every deed with a loyalty-firmly cemented by $8,000,000 in government subsidies-that leaves very little room for anything else, particularly news. By rights, such a love match ought to endure as long as the government treasury. But last week, to the consternation of the Times and the News, the Osagyefo cut them...
Just Plain Doctor. The reason for Nkrumah's move was not displeasure but competition. Even in Ghana, readers prefer news to propaganda, and even in Nkrumah's Ghana, readers still have a choice. The Daily Graphic, which is owned by London's Daily Mirror group, almost never calls Nkrumah Osagyefo; he is usually "the President" or "Dr. Nkrumah"-a reference to his honorary LL.D. from Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. Open criticism of Nkrumah is not healthy in Ghana, but when the Graphic disapproves of the presidential policies, it simply runs no editorial column...
Keep in Tune. Last week, already pinched for money to support his vaunted aid programs to other African nations, Nkrumah bluntly ordered the Times and the News to pay their own way or perish. Worse yet, Accra rumor had it that Nkrumah intended to let both papers die and to replace them in a year or so with a less propagandistic daily printed in the $4,500,000 printing plant that the East Germans have promised to build for him near Accra. In undisguised anguish, the Times and News printed appeals to their declining readership. "Don't ever forget...
America, moreover, while practicing this laissez-faire-to-the-death policy toward its allies, also once proclaimed the immorality of neutralism. Until the United States as a nation and as a leader accepts the sincere intentions of men like Nehru and Nkrumah to build a "third force" bloc, until we loosen the military strings attached to foreign aid, until we stop driving Castros and Toures into the outstretched arms of the Soviet alliance, we shall continue to pour money into the coffers of neutrals and gain only their contempt...
...conference made little appeal to the newly independent states of the French Community-one of which, Mauritania, fears attack by Morocco. Headed by Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, this group of nations prefers keeping their cultural and economic ties with France to adventures with Nkrumah or Nasser...