The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-10-05
n. o. Woskussoa
Consider Our Allies

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Editors Note: The w. D. Work
man columns for Sept. 10 and
a., of which this is one, have
been written by Anthony Harri.
gan, associate editor Of The
News and Courier Of Charleston,
S. c.. and writer on defense and
forigen policy for professional
military journals in the q. S.
and abroad. Mr.. Harrigan re
Gently has observed NATO naval
maneuvers and studied at first
hand U. S.-Portuguese relations.
If you want more Congos, we
can provide them"
These are the words of DR..
Alberto Franco Nogueira, Portu-
gals foreign minister, in reply
to a question by a wire service
reporter as to what would hap
pen if Angola and Mozambique
were given independence over
night.
Those of us who heard DR..
Nogueira and had seen the Afri-
can reality first-hand were not
of a mind to dismiss his sug-
gestion of fresh disaster on the
African continent.
But Portugal receives scant
understanding from her NATO
ally, the. United States. Five
hundred years of Portuguese
struggle to civilize portions Of
Africa are, in Adlai Stevenson S
view, to be considered as moth
ing. Get out Of Angola" is the
well nigh universal cry from
those who say. africa is for
the Africans"
But in Lisbon, Portugal's an
cient capital on the Tagus River,
reporter can gain valuable
perspective on Africa and the
Vests relationship to it. In a
very real sense, Portugal may
be said to have disco yer e d
Africa ~ at least, vast areas of
that continent. Brave seamen in
little cara els sailed south
around the bulge of Afric
charted the continents shoreline
and oyaged to India and China.
Five hundred years later, the
Portuguese cities of Africa are
among the most splendid on the
continent. Mines hae been de-
veloped. Disease has been con-
quered. Schools have been es-
tablished.
Maybe the growth is not as
rapid as liberals in America
would prefer. But then urban
liberals never had the response
bility of raj sing stone age
peoples to modern status. They
never built cities and ports IA
cilities where jungle had existed
from the beginning Of time.
A small country on the her
ian peninsula, Portugal derives
approximately Is per cent Of her
national income from Angola.
This is hardly an outrageous re-
turn on five centuries of invest
ment of blood and treasure. Yet
the liberals of the West would
cut off Portugal from income de-
rived from Angola. The result
would be transformation in Por-
tugal and, very possibly, revo-
luton.
1--WE are working in the West
ern interest," said DR.. Nogueira
in arguing the case for Portu-
guese action against terrorism
in Angola. But this case is not
heard in the United States. The
U. S. public hears a great deal
about the alleged threat to
peace represented by Katanga.
The State Department is pub
licly indignant at Katanga's re-
fusal to cooperate with the Cen
trail Congolese government. Yet
there is no official U. S. protest
against the establishment Of
camps of Angolan revolution
aries on Congolese soil. Few
voices in the press bother to
tell the American people that
the Angolan nationalist" in re-
atty are Congolese - remnants
Of Patrice Lumumba's old army
that infiltrated northern Angola.
AS poor country, Portugal is