EDITORIAL
A grave threat hangs-heavy over Africa, a threat represented by the
same powers v/hich, in ancient times, dived like vultures on our
continent, exploiting our riches and enslaving our people.
These powers can never accept the loss of the wealth of Africa. The
independence of the African colonies is painful to them.  Today,
as before, they resume their policy of direct aggression.  A grave
threat weighs heavily on the v/hole African continent.
How can it be ignored? To refer only to the most flagrant events of
this months On the 10th of November a plot, organised by the
western allies of Portugal and South Africa, was discovered and
denounced.  This plot was headed by the United States of America
and directed against the United Republic of Tanzania and the
nationalist movements which have their headquarters in Dar es-
Salaam.  On the 25th of November, Belgian and American forces,
supported by Great Britain and with the approval of France,
attacked the Congolese nationalists and occupied Stanleyville.
We would be lacking in perception if we were surprised by this.  In
the armed struggle in which we are engaged for the liberation of
our country, we are daily fired upon with Belgian, British and
German guns, v/e are shot at with American and French bullets, we
are threatened by American and British airplanes and bombs. More
concretely^
From 1951 to 1961 the United States of America supplied
all kinds of arms to Portugal to the value of 500 million
dollars;  after the beginning of the war in Angola, the
quantity of these arms was increased.
West Germany recently supplied 10,000 machine guns to Portugal^  A contingent of 500 German officers and soldiers
from several branches of the Bundeswehr went this month to
Beja, Southern Portugal;  a.German general will command thorn.
This, according to official Portuguese sources, is only the
vanguard of a more powerful force.  The Bundestag approved
a credit of 46 million marks to help reinforce the Beja
military base.  In conformity with an agreement signed in
October 1963, the Portuguese soldiers wounded in Angola and
Guinea (and now in Mozambique) will be treated in German
hospitals.  The same agreement allows facilities for the
training of German soldiers in the military camp of Sajata
Margarida, Portugal, and for the storage of German war
material in Portuguese territory.
Up until now, Britain has always satisfied any Portuguese
requests for weapons.
The same applies to France s for example, in March 1963