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...Rivals. From the moment they took their seats, the Africans proclaimed that they were their own men, and nobody else's. One after another, they echoed the neutralist declaration of Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio: "Our purpose is not to be drawn into the conflict between the great powers...
...ambitious Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah openly covets the French part he did not get. As late as 1958, France was still stubbornly rejecting any talk of Togo independence. Then under prodding from Togo's able pro-Western nationalist, Sylvanus Olympic, 57, the U.N. ordered an election in which Olympio's Committee for Togolese Unity swept two-thirds of the seats, and thereupon negotiated Togo's independence...
...potential investors the country's biggest asset is Olympio himself, a big man in a small country. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Olympio has almost eliminated a national deficit equal to one-third of the budget by impartially enforcing taxes, carefully auditing government accounts and setting an example of Spartan frugality. Declining to live in the official Prime Minister's house, he often bicycles to work, carefully turns off the refrigerator before going to bed "because I wouldn't want the electric people to think I'm becoming extravagant...
...million) Nigeria, Prime Minister Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa refers to Ghana's leader with scarcely veiled contempt. "I do not know why you attach any importance whatsoever to what Mr. Nkrumah says," he recently snapped to touring British reporters. In Togoland, popular Premier Sylvanus Olympio is even blunter. "The man must be crazy," he says. "Does he really think he can absorb us with his puny bunch of tin soldiers and those two minesweepers he calls a navy...
...figure of Nkrumah no longer looms so large as it did, for Nkrumah's highhanded suppression of those who oppose him has offended other leaders. "Ghanocracy," snorts Premier Mamadou Dia of Senegal, "does not interest us." And Premier Sylvanus Olympio of Togoland, on Ghana's border, wants to delay his own country's independence until Nigeria gets its in 1960, on the simple theory that Nigeria's 34.7 million people would never bow to Nkrumah...