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224. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, October 8, 1957
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Africa, Volume XVIII
225. Despatch From the Consulate General at Lagos to the Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Africa, Volume XVIII
64. Message From Prime Minister Eden to President Eisenhower
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Suez Crisis, July 26–December 31, 1956, Volume XVI
ser ’s own speech at Aboukir on August 1, in which he said “We are very strong because we constitute a limitless strength extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arab Gulf”. I know that Nasser is active wherever Muslims can be found, even as far as Nigeria. The Egyptians tried t…
10. Memorandum From the Representative at the Trusteeship Council ( Sears ) to the Secretary of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Africa, Volume XVIII
ture U.S. Policy in Africa The attached report covers travels which I made under State Department orders during the autumn and early winter to Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, the Gold Coast, British Togoland and Nigeria. Its purpose was to co…
16. Memorandum From the Officer in Charge of Southern Africa Economic Affairs ( Longanecker ) to the Director of the Office of Southern Africa Affairs ( Hadsel )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Africa, Volume XVIII
ration assistance. Several projects have been agreed on, the major one involving assistance in expanding the Gold Coast’s community development activity. The Ghanaian Minister of Finance, K.A. Gbedemah , visited Washington on more than one occasion. Lagos Nigeria is also headed f…
123. Instruction From the Department of State to the Consulate General at Accra
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Africa, Volume XVIII
305. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, July 5, 1956
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Africa, Volume XVIII
uth African Government would not be so stupid as to give these people the right to vote. Rather, the Union is trying to raise the educational level of the natives and this is a long process. To give such people the right to vote, as is being done in Nigeria for example, is prepos…
14. Despatch From the Embassy in France to the Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Western Europe and Canada, Volume XXVII
this score. Michel Debré, a leading Senator and defender of the French Union, has steadily pointed out the inroads of Mohammedanism in Black Africa which will militate against the continuation of French control in its present form. The experiment in Nigeria and the Gold Coast is…
190. Report Prepared by the National Security Council
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Foreign Economic Policy; Foreign Information Program, Volume IX
g NSC 5436/1, the program is continued in order to advance those long-range U.S. objectives with which the French are not identified. One-man sub-posts were established in each of the two British territories which are approaching self-government; at Ibadan, Nigeria (fourth larges…
6. Letter From the Consul at Nairobi ( Barrow ) to the Representative at the Trusteeship Council ( Sears )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Africa, Volume XVIII
ence”, et cetera, we Americans seem to be promising more to the African than we are—in most areas—actually able to deliver. In so doing there is grave danger of creating disillusionment. One may well wish to talk of these things in the Gold Coast or Nigeria where they are on the…
7. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs ( Allen ) to the Secretary of State
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quired for this expansion being over and above that needed for existing posts. During the coming five years, we should probably plan to open at least five new consulates, in order to keep abreast of developments in French West Africa, the Cameroons, Nigeria, Uganda, Somaliland, t…
9. Memorandum by the Consul General at Leopoldville ( McGregor )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Africa, Volume XVIII
5. Confidential. Enclosure to despatch 220 from Leopoldville, December 28. It responded to circular instruction CA –1535, August 23, which forwarded Tab B of Document 7 and invited comments from Accra, Brussels, Dakar, Dar-es-Salaam, Elisabethville, Lagos, Leopoldville, Lisbon, L…
15. Editorial Note
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the Union of South Africa, Liberia, Angola, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, the Belgian Congo, the Cameroons (British and French), French Equatorial Africa, French West Africa, the Gold Coast, Spanish and Portuguese Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Federation of Rhod…
38. Despatch From the Consulate General in Dakar to the Department of State
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The Acting Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Missions
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, General: Economic and Political Matters, Volume I, Part 2
and Northern European Affairs, Western European Affairs, South American Affairs, International Materials Policy, and the Foreign Operations Administration. Sent to London, La Paz, Brussels, The Hague, Canberra, Ottawa, Paris, Bonn, New Delhi, Rome, Lagos, Leopoldville, and Caraca…
Memorandum by the Deputy Director of the Office of Dependent Area Affairs ( Robbins ) to the Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs ( Key )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, United Nations Affairs, Volume III
ts from these parties thus far, the question has not been raised in the Department at this time. British Cameroons Problems: The trust territory of British Cameroons consists of two disconnected narrow strips of territory along the eastern border of Nigeria., with a population of…
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Director of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs ( Wainhouse )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, United Nations Affairs, Volume III
the development of her Cameroons trust territory to fall behind the rate of progress in other parts of Africa. “ Mason Sears , speaking for the United States in the Trusteeship Council, pointed to the signs of early nationhood for the Gold Coast and Nigeria and self-determination…
Memorandum by the Deputy Director of the Office of Dependent Area Affairs ( Robbins ) to the Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs ( Key )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, United Nations Affairs, Volume III
by the Secretary and Assistant Secretary Byroade and does not give any cause for concern. You may be interested to know that USIA is cabling full texts of Mr. Sears ’ statements in the Trusteeship Council to our Public Affairs Officers in Accra and Lagos. Mr. Sears ’ earlier stat…
Memorandum by the Deputy United States Representative on the Trusteeship Council ( Gerig ) to the Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs ( Key )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, United Nations Affairs, Volume III
eroons, French Cameroons and British Togoland, his final statement was only about a page and a half in length and selected one or two large issues such as, for example, (1) the early attainment of self-government for British Cameroons in relation to Nigeria, (2) the impact which…
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs ( Key )
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, United Nations Affairs, Volume III
licy in West Africa and that they maintain the same pace of political development. Without wishing to criticize British policy in this area, Ambassador Bonnet said that the French were not persuaded that the British experiments in the Gold Coast and Nigeria would be entirely succ…
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