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...Cameroon's new green, yellow and red flag fluttered proudly on poles that had carried the French Tricolor for 40 years, thousands gathered before the Legislative Assembly building at midnight to greet independence day with cheers. Later that morning Premier Ahidjo proudly assembled his distinguished guests for the formal ceremony pronouncing independence. The foreigners, who included...
Walking cautiously along the forest trail blazed by the British in Ghana and Nigeria, France last week permitted its African citizens in the dank and sweaty Cameroons (pop. 3,300,000) to take a big step toward self-government. Under a law passed by the French Assembly (under which France still maintains firm control over the West African colony's foreign affairs, defense and money matters), the Cameroons became something called a "State Under Trusteeship." Last week ambitious and outspoken Andre-Marie Mbida,.an ardently anti-Communist Cameroonian tribesman who once studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, took over...
...Axis broadcasters reported, with a great air of knowledge, that U.S. combat forces were massing in western Africa (see map): in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon. If so, then the U.S., for all military purposes, had taken over the great coastal belt embracing the Allied ports of Freetown, Takoradi, Lagos and Accra, feeding the new air and surface supply routes to Egypt, the rest of the Middle East and Russia. Furthermore, if the Axis was right, U.S. forces were moving into positions from which they could attack Dakar...
Many points of possible Franco-German friction were left hanging. Nothing whatever was said about German (or Axial) claims to French colonies (like Algeria), protectorates (like Tunis) or mandated territories (like Cameroon, formerly German). Nor was there any mention of the moribund but unrenounced treaty of mutual aid between France and Russia, always a sore point with Germany. However, three days later the Chamber of Deputies voted (315-to-241) confidence in Premier Daladier's foreign policies, of which the French-German "friendship"' declaration is a keystone. Strangely, it was from the Right, which for 15 years scorned...
Scientific expeditions to Ireland, Siam, the Cameroon, Venezuela, the Tibeto-Indian border, Ecuador, Arizona, and Florida, were sent out last year by the Peabody Museum, and progress of the field work was reported today by Donald Scott, Director of the Museum...