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Macmillan. he demanded: "What about the Netting Hill troubles here?" India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, displaying considerable restraint, tried to reason with Louw. So did Malaya's Tengku Abdul Rahman, who had precipitated a crisis by walking out on a meeting with Louw during the first week of the conference. Even Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, originally sympathetic to Louw's problems, gave up in the face of his intransigence. At a meeting of London's South Africa Club. Louw said the other Prime Ministers had greeted him with...
Ghana's Nkrumah canceled a proposed exchange of visits between Ghanians and South Africans. Malaya's Tengku Abdul Rahman and several other ministers were only persuaded at the last moment from putting out a dissenting communique of their own. New Zealand's Walter Nash made his feelings clear by publicly stating: "There are no inherently superior people-none." At the moment, few Commonwealth Prime Ministers want to throw South Africa out of the club. The member nations seem ready to wait a year or 18 months until their next meeting in the hope that mounting world pressures...
...many white Prime Ministers as colored. The leaders of the Commonwealth's Asian and African nations, resplendent in achkans and bright-colored togas, had come to London determined to register their distaste for apartheid. "The eyes of the world are on the conference," said Ghana's Nkrumah. "I will not be silent on the issue...
...hinterland, which had been a stronghold of the opposition until Nkrumah ruthlessly broke the power of the tribal chiefs two years ago, the Prime Minister's machine showed its efficiency. United Party vehicles were burned; party leaders were jailed on flimsy charges until the voting was over. Nkrumah's hard-fisted Transport Minister Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei stormed into one United Party headquarters and. when he saw the Prime Minister's picture hung upside down with pins stuck in its eyes, ordered that a beating be administered to the man responsible. In an Ashanti district toured by Edusei...
...week's end these tactics gave Kwame Nkrumah and his new constitution an unbeatable 8-1 lead. Said defeated Dr. Joseph Danquah: "I am beginning to feel ashamed of the things that are being done here in the name of democracy...