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366. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy

are indications that the Communists will make a major effort to exploit this issue to compensate for their failures in the Congo, Guinea, Algeria and elsewhere in Africa. Such friendly and responsible leaders as Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, Balewa of Nigeria, Adoula of the Congo, and Nyerere of Tanganyika have told us that their ability to resist pressures for a radical, violent solution will depend in good part on the extent to which they can show that the United States is moving with them in an effort to reach a peaceful and evolutionary solution. They cannot publicly take issue with…

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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	1963-07-10
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XXI, Africa
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v21/d366
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v21/d366`

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366. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1963. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v21/d366.