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70. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Newsom ) to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs ( Springsteen )

Portugal halfway across the African continent when it has not joined the Arab brothers in war on its own doorstep. The Africans have already vowed support for the liberation movement, but we have yet to see whether individual African states, each as Nigeria, have both the material and political capability to commit their own forces against the Portuguese. Portugal’s arrangements with the US on supply to Israel, in any event, can hardly worsen Portugal’s position vis-a-vis the Africans. The movement-award independence in Portugal’s African territories is unrelenting and is gathering support fro…

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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	1973-10-22
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve06/d70
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve06/d70`

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70. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Newsom ) to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs ( Springsteen ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1973. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve06/d70.