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Unlike many an official guest in Washington, Sylvanus Olympic, 60. President of the new Republic of Togo, had not come demanding U.S. aid-or else. Indeed, he had a refreshingly realistic view of the problems of his and other emergent countries. Said he: "It is very easy to shout 'Freedom, Freedom,' even going to the extent of being very aggressive. But, after all, what we are looking for is not so much getting rid of a foreign ruler as to improve our standard of living, working for a better life. We must now actually prove to our people...
...stood smartly at attention for 30 minutes, doffed his grey fedora as plumed battalion commanders saluted him with sabers. Later the old grad (class of '15), who made a cadet career of breaking as many Academy rules as he dared, became the fourth man to win the Sylvanus Thayer Medal* (named for a 19th century superintendent known as the Father of the Academy), for "devotion and service to his country." Said Ike, describing the ideals that Thayer handed down to generations of the long grey line: "It's something in the heart. As long as it stays, America...
...Presidential Suite at the Waldorf Tower, his guests included Cabinet ministers from such countries as Nepal, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Ethiopia. When tiny Togo gave a cocktail party at the Plaza Hotel, who should pop in but pudgy Nikita Khrushchev, all smiles. Both dazed and gratified, Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio offered the understatement of the week by observing that Khrushchev is a "very calm man" to whom "you can say anything at all and he will not be angry...
...Rivals. From the moment they took their seats, the Africans proclaimed that they were their own men, and nobody else's. One after another, they echoed the neutralist declaration of Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio: "Our purpose is not to be drawn into the conflict between the great powers...
...British portion was folded into Ghana, whose ambitious Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah openly covets the French part he did not get. As late as 1958, France was still stubbornly rejecting any talk of Togo independence. Then under prodding from Togo's able pro-Western nationalist, Sylvanus Olympic, 57, the U.N. ordered an election in which Olympio's Committee for Togolese Unity swept two-thirds of the seats, and thereupon negotiated Togo's independence...