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...though going back is probably impossible, Dar es Sallaam is not necessarily the end of the road for the refugee. If he is intelligent, the refugee can enter the school being run in Dar by the African American Institute and staffed by members of the Phillips Brooks House-sponsored Project Tanganyika. If he has a secondary school education, he can qualify in a few months for a scholarship, either to the U.S., to another African country, or to a nation of the Communist bloc, especially China, Czechoslovakia, or the Soviet Usion. A number of the refugees become "freedom fighters...
With the approaching independence of Northern Rhodesia in October, the "freedom line" will move almost a thousand miles further south and the refugees will undoubtedly begin to move with it. But with the Committee of Nine, the refugee school, and the scholarship programs centered in Dar es Sallaam, the Tenganyikan city will remain a "haven" for a long time to come
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