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been condemned by all the count
ries of the world" The Congolese
foreign minister was referring to
the vote Of the United Nations
General Assembly Of 80 to 2 in
January of this year which af-
firmed 1.-THE inalienable right of
the Angolan people to self-deter-
mination and independence"
NATHANIEL A WELBECK, a
longtime loyal associate Of Presi-
dent Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana,
has been appointed executive sec
rotary Of DR.. Nkrumah's Conven-
ton Peoples Party. Welbeck's ap-
pointment was announced in Accra
by the Ghanaian President. Wei
beck was once regarded as Presi-
dent Nkrumah's Intermediary with
the late Congo Premier Patrice
Lumumba, in his new Opp post,
Welbeck succeeds H. Cofie- Crabbe,
who was arrested August 20, with
Foreign Minister Ako Adjei and
Information and Broadcasting Min
lister Tawai Adamafio under terms
of Ghana's Preventive Detention
Act. ).
THE ARREST of the three men
was regarded in Accra as the first
sign that there had been open
opposition to President Nkrumah
in his own party. The pro-Gov-
eminent Ghanaian Times charged
on the day after the arrests that
the trio had been involved in an
attempt to kill the President earli-
er in August, when a grenade was
thrown at him as he left his car
to greet a group of children in the
village Of Kulingugu, about 500
miles north Of Accra. The blast
killed four persons, including a
schoolboy' and two policemen, and
injured some Sc people in the
crowd that gathered to greet
Nkrumah.
IN NORTHERN RHODESIA,
nationalist leader Kenneth Kaunda
has called on federal employees to
stand by for a call to quit their
jobs. The African leader said the
strike would be part Of a master
plan to dismantle the Central Afri-
can Federation led by Prime Min
lister Sir Roy Welensky. Get
ready. Save your money. The time
Is coming soon when we shall ask
you to leave your employment"
Kaunda told a meeting Of 1000
African followers at a United Ma
tional Independence party meeting
in Lusaka. Kaunda, whose dislike
for the Federation Is no secret, has
spoken many times previously
about his master plan to break up
the settler-controlled government.
Northern and Southern Rhodesia,
along with Nyasaland, make up
the white-ruled Federation.
CIVIL SERVANTS were as
sured by Kaunda that those who
resigned would be given their jobs
latter general elections in Northern
Rhodesia in October. A victory by
the UNIP, Kaunda's party, would
lgive him leadership of the North
ern Rhodesian government. Afri-
cans, led by DR.. Hastings X. Ban
da, already control the government
lin Nyasaland. Banda, like Kaunda,
has no love for the Federation.
There are an estimated 5000 Afri-
can and 5000 white federal civil
servants in Northern Rhodesia.
Observers say Kaunda has virtual
ly no support from whites and can
expect about half Of the African
workers to respond to his call. The
accuracy Of their prediction re-
mains to be seen. Kaunda said
that when the strike call goes out
he viii make sure that essential
lservices remain manned, however,
he declared that WelenslSy had to
be undermined completely" The
nationalist, leader decline to say
after the meeting when he would
issue his call.
ALTHOUGH a man of slim
; build with a sometimes soft-spok-
en-, polite manner, Kaunda is a
fiery leader. While on a visit to the
United States in 1851, he told
, AMP, as he has often stated, that
the idea Of the Federation as q
partnership between Africans and
whites Is a farce. His appearance
Is that Of a dedicated nationalist,
one who win not rest until every
vestige Of colonialism has been
uprooted from his country.