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...goals: ridding the world of colonialism, securing aid from both East and West for economic development; and settling the disarmament issue as fast as possible. In other areas, Sohn predicted, these states will be unable to form a bloc in spite of proposals for a united group by President Nkrumah of Ghana...
Looking at the current African leaders, Essien-Udom contrasts Toure, whom he calls a revolutionist, wanting to change the whole of society, with Nkrumah, a reformist who only wants to patch things up, here and there. As to which of these kinds of change he thinks Nigeria needs most, Essien-Udom merely answers: "I am not a politician...
Later, Tito darted across town to the Waldorf to see Ike, who had just finished lunching with delegates of all Latin American nations (not invited: Cuba, the Dominican Republic). Ike had also had a quick exchange of pleasantries with Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala and Lebanon's Premier Saeb Salam. Tito and Ike broke the ice with a discussion of cattle breeding, parted on Ike's invitation to Tito to travel freely in the U.S. during his stay...
...advance payment on the U.S. contribution to U.N. costs in the Congo, and assured him that additional funds would be made available. Herter was still steamed up when he answered reporters' questions at a Foreign Press Association meeting. Part of his ire splashed over on Ghana's Nkrumah. Acknowledging that he had not read all of Nkrumah's speech, he undiplomatically lumped him with Khrushchev. "Whether it was prearranged or not, I do not know. But I think he has marked himself as very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc." (Replied Nkrumah diplomatically: "Mr. Herter...
...self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans and Asians as both a white man and a Communist. Nasser, who cannot even bring the entire Arab world under his wing, flirts with the notion of African leadership-which Ghana's Nkrumah regards as his special province. Even India's Nehru, the senior neutralist of all, is now regarded by the newly self-confident Africans as a purely Asian figure with no more competence in African affairs than any European...