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Another diplomatic thesis was that of Ralph Johnson Bunche, M.A. '34, on "French Administration in Togoland and Dahomey." Bunche later served as undersecretary of the United Nations from...
Close-Up (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Interviews with the Premiers of Nigeria and Togoland, plus Kenya's Tom Mboya, are part of "The Red and the Black," a study of the East-West battle for influence in Africa...
...Lome, sweltering capital of what was once the French Togoland, the French tricolor fluttered to the ground for the last time. Then two strapping Togolese soldiers smartly raised the new yellow-and-green-barred emblem of the free and independent republic of Togo as a French man-of-war in the harbor boomed a 101-gun salute and 20,000 Togolese, shouting "ablodé, ablodé" (freedom), snake-danced through the palm-lined streets behind a blaring brass band and native drummers. Thus last week was born the second of seven new African nations, due to join the world family...
...First colonized (and named) by Germany 76 years ago, Togoland after World War II was split into British and French mandates without regard to tribal boundaries. In 1957 the British portion was folded into Ghana, whose 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...
...friends for Nkrumah. In big (pop. 35 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...