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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: The Hand of Kwame | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: A Consuming Fire | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Austen Chamberlain, K.G.), 1926-29; Parliamentary Under Secretary, Foreign Office, 1931-33; Lord Privy Seal, 1934-35; Minister without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs, 1935. Publication: Places in the Sun. Address: 17 Fitzhardinge Street, W.I. T.: Welbeck 7817. Clubs: Carlton, Hurlingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: From Fitzhardinge Street | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...year: "We are instructed by His Grace the Duke of Portland to publish this complete and unqualified denial of every suggestion that has been made in certain newspapers in connection with the visit of His Majesty the King of the Belgians and Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth, to Welbeck Abbey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Visiting Kings | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Twenty-four hours later the King's handsome young brother, Prince Charles, 34, arrived in England, did not go to Welbeck Abbey. In 1932 Prince Charles was rumored engaged to the Duke of Portland's fair-haired granddaughter, the none-too-beauteous Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, now 21. World-wide rumors that Lady Anne is about to become either Queen or a Princess of the Belgians were met by official denials carried on British Press Association wires and at Brussels the King's Secretary, Baron Capelle called them "childish fairy tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fairy Tales? | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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