Word: wachuku
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec, 15--Nigerian Foreign Minister Jaja Wachuku strongly defended today the action of the United States, Belgium and Britain in sending a rescue mission to the Congo...
...debate had the floor last week at the U.N. General Assembly. With their motives ranging from fellow-Communism to "realism," in favor of seating Red China were: Cuba, the Eastern European satellites, Yugoslavia, U.A.R., Sweden, Ceylon, Indonesia, Ghana and Burma. But some states were troubled. Nigeria's Jaja Wachuku could not accept the expulsion of Nationalist China as a "condition" for the admission of Red China, since the Nationalist government "has under it 11 million people" and is a U.S. ally, so that any attempt to conquer it could lead to a threat of war. Wachuku also noted that...
...understandable that Nigerians should feel sensitive about Western criticism of their economic problems. And one might grant part of Nigerian Foreign Minister Wachuku's contention that Miss Michelmore's hurried jotting of her subjective reactions was not precisely a model of scholarly accuracy. If, indeed, Miss Michelmore had shown such bad manners as to publicize her views during her stay, no one could seriously blame the students at Ibadan for demanding her departure...
...with just a trace of scorn in his voice, he suggested that if the big powers could not really get together on a successor to Dag Hammarskjold, the problem might be turned over to someone else-the Africans themselves. "We, the smaller states, will produce one," declared Wachuku, "and will give him our fullest support. That is how we do things in Africa...
...determination as an issue only among colonial people, not in such a place as Berlin, which he airily dismisses as a matter of power politics. But while most Africans carefully concealed their opposition to the Red proposal to run the U.N. by troika-so as not to anger Moscow-Wachuku spoke out bluntly against it: "We do not agree with the Soviet Union about the troika proposal. That would not work...