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331. Memorandum of Conversation

in United Nations voting, since it is hard to see how any country of Africa south of the Sahara could vote along with France on any question touching Africa or colonialism. Once the Algerian problem is settled, there would be no African voting bloc. Nigeria and the former French territories would be particularly inclined to vote along with the European nations. Mr. Satterthwaite said the United States was encouraging France to try to arrange the formation of large rather than small units out of what was French West Africa. Four states of French Equatorial Africa may form a federation. On the o…

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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	1960-03-23
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Western Europe, Volume VII, Part 2
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v07p2/d331
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Record ID	`frus:frus1958-60v07p2/d331`

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331. Memorandum of Conversation. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1960. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1958-60v07p2/d331.