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Memorandum Transmitted by Mr. Leon Pignon, Representative of the French Delegation to the Trusteeship Council, to the United States Representative to the Trusteeship Council ( Sayre )

people would not be informed, would be a sort of deceit. It would also be an error of policy with respect to West Africa in general. The French government has followed with great interest the political evolution of the Gold Coast as well as that of Nigeria, and considers that the progress made in these two territories, although obtained in different ways, is no less worthy of interest than that from which the French territories of Black Africa have themselves benefited. But it is needless to point out to the United States delegation the political, strategic, and economic drawbacks of a West Af…

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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	1951-07-13
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere, Volume II
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1951v02/d414
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Record ID	`frus:frus1951v02/d414`

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Memorandum Transmitted by Mr. Leon Pignon, Representative of the French Delegation to the Trusteeship Council, to the United States Representative to the Trusteeship Council ( Sayre ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1951v02/d414.