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32. Memorandum by the Deputy Representative-Designate to the United Nations Security Council ( Yost )

roader and more serious objectives: (1) to strengthen their relative position and influence vis-a-vis the West in Africa as a whole, first among the nationalist Casablanca states, second among states with at present more moderate governments such as Nigeria, Tunisia and the Sudan and eventually even in the French Community States and the British territories; (2) to weaken materially African support for the UN in order either to “reform” or otherwise to destroy the usefulness of that organization. If this assessment is correct, it will not be to the advantage of the US to take measures which, e…