Word: nkrumah
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...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...
Since Eisenhower's brief visit, there has been no American at the U.N. to match the glamour or personal flamboyance of a Khrushchev, Macmillan, Nehru or Nkrumah. Secretary of State Christian Herter and U.N. Ambassador James Wadsworth doggedly maintain the U.S. position in debates, but have shown little inclination for genial politicking in the Delegates Lounge. The U.S. aloofness was a deliberate and official policy. The argument: with the heavy agenda of the 15th General Assembly, the U.S. hoped to set a lofty example of hard work...
...hour after he finished orating, the Cuban chief passed through the doors to the headquarters of the Czechs, the leading arms dealers in the Soviet bloc, and stayed three hours. Next day he had a 40-minute talk with Nkrumah. Meeting Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, Castro agreed to exchange ambassadors. He received visits from India's Nehru and from Bulgarian Red Boss Todor Zhivkov, but paid only one call on fellow Latin Americans, attending a Uruguayan reception. Said Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa: "Of all the men Dr. Castro met, next to Khrushchev, he felt a bond...