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Word: quaison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time, Morocco's Ahmed Benhima presided over the Security Council. Turning to the chairman, Ghana's fiery Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey cried in an inverted echo of Churchill: "He has been called upon by destiny to preside over the liquidation of the Portuguese Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Against the Last White Strongholds | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Ghana's ambassador to the U.N. predicted last night that the development single-party system is nearly inevitable in most African nations. Speaking at Law School Forum, H. E. Alex Quaison-Sackey declared that the "general tendency in Africa is toward the emergence of strong parties...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Ghana's Envoy Supports African One-Party Rule | 3/18/1961 | See Source »

Speaking on the topic, "What is the for a Democratic Africa," Quaison-Sackey maintained that the concept of "Loyal Opposition" is alien to Africa. British of `Loyal Opposition' exist in Africa," he explained, the inability of opposition to get their own way in Parliament brings about frustration which to make such parties adopt extra- methods and thus become...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Ghana's Envoy Supports African One-Party Rule | 3/18/1961 | See Source »

...single-party system, Quaison-Sackey maintained, is not undemocratic. "The of the governed cannot but paramount," and any government on popular support is by democratic, he declared...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Ghana's Envoy Supports African One-Party Rule | 3/18/1961 | See Source »

...prepared statement, Quaison-Sackey also emphasized African national not European `benevolence," was for the development of institutions in Africa. Africans were granted the suffrage under "extreme pressure," he declared...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Ghana's Envoy Supports African One-Party Rule | 3/18/1961 | See Source »

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