U.S. Vote on Angola Question Deflates Reds, Angers Allies
Friday, March 24. 1961 University Daily Kansan Page 5
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
President Kennedy's first great new departure in foreign policy may be more far-reaching than the U. S. stand in the Congo.
In voting against Portugal and its NATO allies in favor of action on the Portuguese African territory of Angola, U. S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson put into action Kennedy's policy slogan of "Africa for the Africans."
But Kennedy backed up Williams at a news conference.
And Stevenson's vote—against those of Britain, France and Turkey, from NATO, and China, Chile and Ecuador—made the policy clear.
WHEN SOAPY Williams brought criticism from Britain and other erstwhile European colonial powers for his "anti-colonialist" remarks in Africa, it was not clear whether he was practicing policy or merely enunciating it — or even talking off the top of his head.
Actually, Stevenson did not get
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his instructions to vote against Portugal until the Security Council meeting was underway.
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They were no surprise to him. He supported the new course in consultations with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who discussed it with the President.
THE DECISION for the vote was the President's unappealable order, just as last December's decision to abstain on a pie-in-the-sky resolution supporting independence for remaining colonial territories was President Dwight D. Eisenhower's There was no appeal then, even though the U. N. delegation opposed the decision.
The U. S. voted on the losing side in the Angola case but the results of Stevenson's vote immediately started to become evident.
Britain and France were nonplused.
Portugal, a small but strategically important ally, was furious.
China, singled out for opposition by Stevenson without explanation, was hurt.
Russia, lying back with a full-blown denunciation of U. S. policy. had the wind taken out of its sails
The Africans were overjoyed.
Saudi Arabia's Ahmad Shukairy, a leading spokesman for Palestine's Arab refugees, wondered aloud if
Washington's new policy would extend to that case.
GOOD NEIGHBORS Chile and Ecuador, normally solidly with the United States in U. N. votes, were upset. Their delegates had indicated a leaning, too, to voting against Portugal but abstained possibly because that was the traditional Western position on such questions.
In retrospect, Stevenson's vote against Portugal cast its shadow before.
And it is true that his Western allies in the council were advised of his intention before he cast his vote.
The excuse for the secrecy surrounding the decision is that the United States did not want to tip its hand to Russia.
SOVIET AMBASSADOR Valerian A. Zorin's face may have been red with embarrassment.
But several more friendly faces in the council were red with frustration.
It might be a good idea to play them so close to the vest the Russians don't know the trick until the card is played.
But it is probably a better idea, even the best of the U. N. poker-faced diplomats agree, to let your backers—in this case, Washington's Western friends—know what is in your hand.
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