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Actually, France has maintained this surface harmony largely because the leading party in the land, in the years immediately following World War II, has beaten the drum for independence and boycotted all elections since 1952. Each year Sylvanus Olympio, 56, head of the Comité de l'Unité Togolaise (C.U.T.), journeyed to Manhattan to plead Togoland's cause before the U.N. He is a graduate of the left-wing-leaning London School of Economics, and Togoland's top businessman. As a result of his boycott, an Assembly was elected without a single member of the opposition...
...OLYMPIO: THE LIFE OF VICTOR HUGO 540 pp.) - Andre Mourois - Harper...