Of Independence
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The Cold, Cold World Of Independence
Under pressure from the Americaa hemisphere it seemed obvious that in the realities of international economic competition ton the coffee market] the liberal-minded, sympathetic approach of the UN would not mean much in these considerations and that the “de pendant territory” approach was recognised as being over-done.
This was one place where racial origin or a coloured skin would be no help. The recent Colonial Powers had become merely hard-headed con sumers, glad to have shed or be in the process of getting rid of dependant countries for which they no longer felt any responsibility. Not at this meeting anyway.
The African who might have re cently screamed for freedom now rather obviously wished he had a European big brother to do the talk ing and to explain to the fiery Brazi lians the im ortanco ox coffee to his emerging nation.
Only the protectorates of Portugal got this kind of service in Washington.
The rest seemed out on their own in a cold atmosphere, as chilly as the weather outside. —Mr. lan Downs, coffee planter of NG, on the recent coffee negotia tions in Washington.