NEW AFRICAN STATES SHOW INGRATITUDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400660008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 6, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400660008-4
? A./UK/NAL AMERICAN
AUG 1964 ?
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VICTOR RIESEL: INSIDE LABOR ?
ew. A !man States Show Ingratitude
triAIRO, UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC:?The other
ki evening I Mingled with former Mau Mau leaders,
machine-gun wielders, jungle fighters and bomb-
ttirowng revolutionists. Some were in togas and other
:national dress. Some in conseriative business suits.
'?Now they are world leaders, heads of African states. They
;had come to Cairo for the Meeting of the Organization of
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?African Unity (OAU) in the UN-type auditorium of the heav-
tIly-guarded AralS League headquarters building.
Of all the former revolutionists, ex-Mau Mau supreme
'commander, bewhiskered, skull-capped Jomo Kenyetta, Prime"
Minister of Kenya, got the loudest reception. He bowed
regally, for he is so eminently respectable now that the Kenya
'Public Service Commission has hired a beauty contest winner,
Miss Freedom (Uhuru) of 1963, as his social secretary. She
to run cocktail parties at his country and town residences.
That's a long way from the jungle days. ?
S Other legendary men around the conference table' were
? equally dignified, though they had stopped shooting less than
? a year hey had put down their guns, but not their
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propaganda. They were still blastingaway at "neo-imperial-
ism"---meaning the U.S. and our allies.
But leaders of the very same nations which were voting
for resolutions attacking our nation and our allies are the
same who are asking for hundreds of millions of dollars from
the U.S. government.
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One of the first men to walk into the Arab League con-
ference hall and sit near the big round table was Tanganyika-
Zanzibar's first vice president, ex-sallor. Abeid Karume. His
'most recent 25 speeches have praised Communist nations and:
I., have attacked the U.S.
k ? Tanganyika's second vice-president Rashidi Kawawa has
t? just returned from Peking. There on June 16 Kawawa gave'
1' a banquet in honor of Peking China's Premier Chou En-lai
and other Chicom dignitaries. During Kawawa's speech he
said, "I share the views expressed by Comrade Mao Tse-tuhg
When we called on him that the imperialists (the U.S.), are
like dirt which will not move until it is swept out. . ..." He
then praised the Chicoms for their guerrilla war against us:
? Yet the Tangyanika-Zanzibar government seeks our help
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? and Private investments from U.S. businessmen. ?
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! . Around the handsome conference table. there also was
:.General Ibrahim Abboud, military dictator of the Sudan. He ?
4o? had just returned from Peking, where he attacked us and
!called one of out allies a "cancer." ? Yet his country .has re-
ceived $89.34 million from the.p.S. since March*, 11)513.. ?.4nc1. ,
he Is asking t.4117..2-1?-rAilLtAnext flsca year
A few chairs away was Ghana's President Kwiime Nkru-*
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, mah. He had brought a large delegation which had helped i
4; fill some of the luxury ?hotels 'along the Nile. They drove i
.1 around Cairo in Cadillacs. They rolled up to the Nile Hiltonl
and the Omar Khaya,m hotels laden with big bundles of ex-1
. pensive purchases. And they were not spending their own's'
funds because Ghanaian money is the only national currency'
unacceptable anywhere on this continent. outside Ghana's.
border& Yet they had plenty of foreign exchange to spend 4
during the hours they were not Concentrating on attacking.
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the U.S. and its Met. , 1 ,
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Yet the U.S. is pouring More than $50 Million intoii
massive Ghanaian projects. ' I
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Sitting close by Mr. Nkrumah was Prsident Sekou Tours -4
of Guinea. He was pro-Communist. Then he broke with4
them for many reasons which , range all the way from al
, Soviet-inspired general strike attempt in his country to the f.1
U.S.S.R.'s dispatch of snow plows as aid to ' his small bush il
country. Now he has some kind words for capitalism. Laski
February he asked the U.S. for $30 million in addition to the .
VS million already granted. Yet he, too, joined in the generall
attack on the U.S. and the British. ns:
Further along the round table was Prima Minister? "
Saleda. As recently AS June A. one of Mr. Balewa's eoloi
' leagues, the premier of Eastern Niceila. Dr. Okpara, expressed;
his disappointment to U.S. Ambassador Mathews over "lnsig-.k
? nificant contributions' by private U.S. Investors in the devel-
opment of this region. Yet Nigeria's federal prime ministeri
cable to the conference of African states here and voted right.
down the line against just this sort of investment, which is,
? generally called a "neo-imperialist invasion" on this.continent,4
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Requests' for private U.S. investments and public U.S
funds were made recently by Mr. Mwanyumba, Kenya's min-
ister for works, communications and power. On June 30 in a?
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: public speech he said the Kenya government was "doing
, everything it could to protect overseas investments." He
.', invited the Americans, British and Germans in.
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But the old jungle fighter, Prime Minister Jomo Ken-,
,. yatta went right long with attacks on the West. So did;
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Uganda's Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote, one of whose),
t cabinet members also urged private investors in capitalist;
? : states to come in, though Uganda had declared it will build a '
.1 socialist state. . . 1,
j; There were others who also want?and need?and ask for.
, our help when they are out of the international spotlight..1
? But when the colorful, dramatically clothed heads of African,
states meet, they turn out critical resolutions like hamburger)
t, patties out of a meat grinder. Not one of those who wane;
i our financial aid ever stands up to come to our aid when our.
country is.,being demeaned. , .. ? .. ? - ' '. ?
t.:#,...)!L I, -41lie,,.t.i."..t world busy In Plr7af :P1,4e8. knOWs .
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 56-Yr 2014/01/06: 'CIA-Ii61='73-00475R000400660008-4