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130. Memorandum From the Director of the United States Information Agency ( Murrow ) to President Kennedy

” Radio Havana reported the speech without comment, stressing the passages having to do with discontent, frustration, and discord. Available reaction from other areas: Africa Prominent coverage is reported from six countries—Algeria, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Mali, and Tunisia—and favorable editorial comment from three of them. The Morning Post of Nigeria said you “will go down in history as one of the greatest champions of the rights of man that ever lived.” La Republique of Oran said your position is categoric and courageous and “it is certain that segregation will be vanquished finally.” The…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1963-06-14
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917–1972, Volume VI, Public Diplomacy, 1961–1963
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1917-72PubDipv06/d130
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Record ID	`frus:frus1917-72PubDipv06/d130`

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130. Memorandum From the Director of the United States Information Agency ( Murrow ) to President Kennedy. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1963. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1917-72PubDipv06/d130.