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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
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Title | CENPA-118~03 |
Filename | CENPA-118~03.tiff |
Full text | 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 |
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