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22 1-fricana
order to say fNo" to colonialism, to brazen,
dying colonialismi in order to win their dignity
in a clean lrnd."
We agree completely with our into Brother Lumumba .
U.S, and the O .A.U .
-the editors-
The Leader ofthe "un-holy alliance" of the imperialist powers,
the United States of America, has unmasked its mailed fist .
The last moment refusal of the United States to meet and confer
with the Reconciliation Commission of tho O.h .U- . which was due to
leave for the United Stntes within the next twenty-four hours, constl,tutee
one of the best object lessons for the whole of Africa ^nd
indeed, for the whole of the decent world .
Yo ore neither surprised nor impressed . Under the leadership
of Rwome Nkrumah, who knows imperialism for what it is, vie have never
been taken in by the double talk, and hollow claims on the part
of the United Stntes . The claim that their country st^ads for world
peace :
There onn hardly be any leader in Africa, tod^.,y, having observed
the activities of the United St^.tes in the Congo, who .will .. .
still remain unconverted about the dangers which imperialism hold
over our heads in Africa and the world . 'which African lender, seeing
the manner in which the United States hcs presented one affront n.fter
another to Africa over the question of the Congo, can hold brick the
wrath of. the people of our continent? He will be a bravo man indeed
who will continue to pretend that the interests of the people of Africa
coincide with those of the United Strtes .
Tith tho ruling clcss in a country like the United States which
is without conscience, and without scruple, the interests of the
people of the Congo can go hang, so long as the puppet Government does
the imperial bidding, and opens the door wide for cnpitrlist exloitntion
. What does the United States onre for the welfare of the people
of Latin America and nations like the Congo, so long ns the resources
of these countries are exposed to foreign investment .
Had the interests of our people in the Congo not been our
concern, we would have like to sit back, and permit the United States
to reveal its selfish designs some more . "re should have let the archimperialist
notion, the United States, invite by its ao-ions the
intervention of the only powers which are its match .