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From DONALD WISE
Buen.
PINT-SIZED Premier John Foncha, of the
southern section of the British-administered Cameroons in Africa, told me recently that he
A gentleman never heard believes that President Nässer of the United Arab the story before.
-AUSTIN O'MALLEY. Republic has been supplying arms to the clusive "invisible killers" who operate, from Foncha's territory across the River Wuri into the French Camercons.
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Thus another complication is added to the tangled story of Cameroons--British und the French-which were won from the Germans in the 1914-18 war and are due to achieve inde- pendence.
Foncha says the supplies cam? from Nasser's arsenal of arms obtained which lie
from Russion satellite countries,
the
Invisible
men 'get Red guns'
A PREMIER ACCUSES
NASSER OF AIDING
THE ELUSIVE REBELS
in February by campaigning invisible men going to wreck
(with two broken collar bones) on a bicycle when he could not afford new tyres for his car.
before birth?
BIRTH CONTROL: NOW THE HOTTEST THING
IN U.S. POLITICS
A BUS speeding along a mid-Western highway in America was pulled to a sudden and unexpected stop one day, recently and a group of men jumping aboard immediately surrounded one of the passengers.
The surprised passenger was Senator Hubert Humphrey of Min- nesota, who is a possible contender for the Democratic Party's Presidential
nomination.
"What's the matter, boys? Are we at war or something?" queried the incredulous Humphrey who recognised his interrogators as reporters.
He couldn't have looked more startled when informed they wished to question him about the birth control issue.
from
LEO
ARMITAGE
New York
The determination of reporters to find Humphrey wherever hc was and to obtain his views is merely one illustration of just how explosive the birth control debale has become since it firs! started with the now-famous debated. It has niso become the statement of the Roman Catholic major tople in millions of homes
throughout the nation.. bishops.
Answer: Well, I think this position holds for the present.
Question: "Wouldn't it be wise I spoke to a university pro- for Nixon to at least make a paralleling Mr
After a long meeting in Wash- ington 200 American cardinals, fessor, a psychiatrist, an artist, statement
a former Russian prince turned Elsenhower's position?” archbishops, and bisbope American, a taxicab driver, and attacked any use of publle tunds many others. Tacy represented Answer: He doesn't want to to promote birth control at home several different faiths except make any comments at this time.
or
abroad, including urder- developed countries.
the Catholic-but all appeared
to share the conviction that
This statement wer at once population planning would have ottasked by a Protestant bishop Government of the future.
to become a responsibility of the
'Concession"
Far moro outspoken Were as "condemning rapidly increas-
Protestant leaders and specialists ing millions In less fortunate
The professor simrned up in family planning. parts of the world to starvation, thele feelings when he said: "In bondage, misery and despair."
Now, origina
rave
the
been
the groat
the
sur-
every discussion I have ever had The strongest editorial com- only weeks after
on this matter, Americans show
ment on Kennedy's position, was scema surprising unity in their concern carried by the New York Post: declaration, it that the American bishops may over a powerful and organised "We believe that what Kennedy
stands for is dead wrong." have fatally
the Catholic vote." damaged Presidential drears of young One of
The Post staird. "We would Jack Kennedy-Roman Catholic senator frem Massachusetts. For prises of the controversy raise serious doubt about a man whose political theology branded Kennedy, cornered by reportera, has
strange aid to the indigent: 23
form a partial endorsement of silence on the part of Vice- of mortal politieal sin. the Roman Catholic Bishops' President Nixon. view, saying 11 would be a
"We can hardly volce lesser "mistake" for the American American newspapermen were daubt about a man who for any Government to advocate birth
of birth clamouring at his door in the reason rejects the use control abroad, It looks as
Capitol almost every day of the control as an elementary weapon support for Kennedy is already week seeking some sort of state in the battle against poverty and weakening.
mat on what he, as President, squalor in the year 1950." Even Dixon has suffered might do about using foreign ald
funds for birth control, a slight decline in
popu- larity as a result indirectly I called Nixon's office in tousle-haired of his refusal to take any search of an explanation and the held the promise of
following
first
Catholic conversation creued the
Romun sides in the great debate.
with his Prers secretary, G. President in the history of the
United States. Klein.
Unity****
it
in
Question: "Doesn't Mr Nixon intend-10 make any statement Despite President Eison- at all on this matter?" howrr's attempts before he left the country to remove the issue
Answer: Mr Eisenhower has
present from. the national political expressed the views of the Ad-
History may well record that up to November 25, 1959, the boyish Kemedy
becoming
Certainly the public opinion polls supported this view.
Up until recently Kennedy was running a comfortable 10 per cent ahead of Vice-President Nixon in pubile opinion studies of leading Presidental car- seem didates,
Little Foncha is the man the
at middle
the moment.
arena, it will remain a flaming ministration. "The less my people hear and emotional subject right up paign in French territory by about terrorism the better," he until election time in November, strange that the only name miss
He told me of the terror cam-
the Union des Populations des Camerouns, master-minded by Felix Moumy from Guinea and urged on by Cairo radio.
"Their polities are cruel and devilish," he said. "They leave no room for opposition."
Red State
They were sent, he rays, from
Indeed. Moury's aides, the Upper Egypt into the Western top rig of whom are Reds, have Sudan, through the republic of, openly stated that they wish Chad, and via the Fort
Lamy'
the United Cameroons to be district into the dense jungle of
come the first African Sovie the French Cameroons.
State.
Canoe-loads
From there they joined the normal west-cast overland mugglers' route, bringing in 7.66-millimetre Czech autons- ties and machine guns,
There are no newspapers in Foncha's Cameroons and his radio does not mention either zmon** or the the "invisible
"Thank goodness WC U.P.C. cannot often hear Cairo radio," he said,
Other Communist weapons, he Fecha plugs the idea of thinks, Bre probably slipped federation with French territory into the Camercons coastal beenuse he tears domination by swampy in canoe-loads from Eastern Nigeria it he joined up the territory 00 his ocean-going vessels standing off with shore.
western border.
Foncha, who. stands for The French Cameroons is federation with the troubled larger and more highly French Cameroons, is desperate- developed. ly, anxious about the trouble in Northern the French area.
This human dynomo has good reason. There are three possi- bilities:
over
British-held The Cameroons
(which have nothing to do with Foncha) recently elected to stay outside the Nigerian federation under British administration.
Poor and backward as it is, the banana-palm-oil-timber- British now. a fateful
the
FIRST be belleves Premler Ahcdjo, h's opposite mumber in The French territory, will be and-cocoa-producing able to break the "Invisible Cameroons hus men" Immediately he is free to choice. play his own hand.
Will the combined Camerpons BUT the fighting is likely to become the place of the future
into in Afrien 34
economic intensity and spill British territory where the planners prophesy? Or are the density of police is one man
total Der 110 square miles-D force of 457 officers and men.
BECAUSE
this, thei Southern Cameroonians may split asunder, some for federa- tion with the former French territory and some for federa- ion with Nigeria.
Vote opposed
sald. "But if it
un-1960. goes on checked it must make a big difference to all my plano."
-(London Express Service).
Question: "Doesn't It
That was before the leaders
ing from the list of Presidential It is not just in the political aspirants who made statements of his faith had spoken. forms that the question is being is that of Mr Nixon?”*
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