Word: welbeck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking the Advice. Nkrumah's agent on the spot was Ghana's charge d'affaires, Nathaniel A. Welbeck, an old Nkrumah party crony and seasoned street-corner political agitator. While Lumumba stayed in the Premier's residence, Welbeck took over the task of issuing wild accusations against the U.N., the U.S., France, and miscellaneous other "imperialists." After Lumumba ventured out briefly for a half-hour tour of the city to test his popular support (few recognized him), Welbeck was at his elbow at the in evitable press conference on the Premier's lawn. Becoming impatient...
...capitalist intrigue when it "dared" compare Nkrumah and Mboya. "Through Kwame Nkrumah, Tom Mboya happened to be built up as an African nationalist leader," explained Labor Official John Tettegah. "Now Mboya has become so conceited he thinks he is God and the world is his." Added N. A. Welbeck, Nkrumah's Minister with Special Duties: "Mboya is an imp not fit to lick Nkrumah's boots . . . Nkrumah is a consuming fire. Anybody who tries to destroy him will be destroyed first." Everyone knows, concluded Party Secretary Adamafio, that "Nkrumah is a superman, master...