.icral * It is quite c,
the end of the year v/e vail have a state colled the East Africa State or the united
States of East Africa, whatever namenit is going to get* It seems to me that everybody
is serious about this and I don't see how they cm back out of it, so here this great
dream of the Federation of East Africa seems to be on the trail now moving to a
point v/here it is going to be a reality within this year* It's wonderful! I can
see how we in Mozambique could look forward to a thing like that ac we develop our
political program towards the indepence of Mozambique* This is a wonderful thing for
us* It also is likely to give more security to Tanganyika as she develops her posit ion
about the independence of woaambiquej as you know, she h o been threatened by Portugal
in nany ways* Now teith the federation it looks as if this threat is going to be quite
an empty thing* So there we are* Anyway, it is a surprise for those of us who were
thinking that thoy might take it more slowly than they v/ere talking about it*"
"The rest of my life is almost routine* I get up in the morning at about a quarter
to seven, I run to the beach which is about a mile away, I get myself ready and dip
into the nice, balmy water, owim,««^now these days the waters are rather on the cool side
and it is very pleasant to swim at about 7 o!clock in the morning* I get out and do
some push-ups and run-ups and exercieces in general* I get back into the water and
have a nice swim and about twice the same thing and then go back and take a oh::
in the Tanganyika Club of which I am now a member*•••Then I dress up and walk back,
a nice i/alk, one mile walk, and then have breakfast about 8:15* 8:50 and then I get
ready for work* By 9*00 somebody picks me up, I go to the office—if it is a day on
which I go to the office—or I stay here in the hotel and do work here in my room;
writing, answering letters, suggesting things* Then, lately, of course, ac I oaid, I
have been trying to find houses* I have also begun classes in Swahili* I have joined
the African-American Institute SwahiliX session which is given to about three people,
I have really no definite schedule; I always shift around as people come around to
see me and to discuss issues v/ith ,e* I have an open kind of schedule* From tine to
time I have to go to the office to see Gome people whom I can see only in the office^,
but otherwise I see lot3 of people here in the New Africa Hotel*
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nI hope that  I will get  a house before you  come here and get initial furniture
before our furniture  comes*  Isve authorized building a house for us but this house
won't be ready until much later or early next year* So  I?m doing everything I can to
get an alternative to that house—either buying a house    to temporarily house the
family and then move to the new on^later*  I don't know*"
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Eduardo has more  comment on the  situation involving splinter groups*     "Cur party
affairs are doing all right these day8***aliabun-a and Gumane, for instance,  lately
this month published a very swanky magazine with Gumane8 s pictrfare on the cover as
president  of UDEiiAMO with alot of stuff inside—none of it against us—their
position in relation to the movement  for independence, not  attacking FRELIMC  at ail*
The point   I want to make  is that  even with that magazine***(l found that) Mabunda
approached  (the American Embassy in Uganda) to ask for money—ha,ha, huh?—Mabunda
asking for money from the American Embassy v/hile I v/ho have been trying to get money
from private sources in the US am accused by the Mabunda group of being an imperialist
stooge*  Isn't that  surprising* There again, that's not  surprising,  but  shows how
stupjlddand  immature they are* How they are completely dry without funds* Mabunda and
Gumane have not returned to Cairo  since the Addis conference; they've been floating
all over*  Apparently my protests and pressures  in both  Cairo and Accra have succeeded
to a certain extent, the very fact that these fellows are without money* They don't
seen to b~ve enough money to fly or move from Kampala to ITairobi—that1 s a very  short
di:;tonee0   If they hr ve no money to dc that v/ith they arc completely dry* They insisted
on telling the Ambassador they are arranging a union between their party and FRELIMO****
Now they are things that really relate to conversations we had with them in which I
offered them some alternative course of action (this took place the first part of
April this year in Cairo)* Mow a parently their  lack of funds forces them to try to
do something abo t  it* And also the African committee of he otatea is now
preparing to hand o t the money and they arc trying to put their hands out to capture
part of this money© '/ell, we'll see v/hat will happen**** Gumane ia really a child* Ho
is being led by the  nooe is taotso fellow called Mabunda*  It is by«