COLONIAL POLICY

Press, Volume C, Issue 29466, 18 March 1961, Page 11

COLONIAL POLICY

Change By U.S. Seen NEW YORK. March 17. A vote by the United States to set up a sub-com-mittee to look into unrest in Portuguese • Angola today drew protests from Portugal and the praise of African and Asian diplomats. The United States voted with Russia and three AfroAsian nations in the Security Council to set up the sub-, committee, but the resolution failed to get the seven supporters necessary for approval. African and Asian diplomats did not conceal their pleasure at the American action. They said they saw it an an indication of a more sympathetic attitude on the part of the Kennedy Administration towards nationalist aspirations in Africa and Asia than was displayed in President Eisenhower’s time. It contrasted with the United States abstention last December 14 on a resolution in the Assembly declaring the right of all people to self-determination—the . socalled “declaration of independence to colonial countries and peoples.” Western sources would not agree that the position taken by the United States marked a swing away from America's traditional allies in Europe in the interests of promoting better relations with Africa and Asia. They said a number of the N.A.T.O. allies were highly sympathetic towards African and Asian aspirations—in particular Canada and Norway, and to Britain and France’s leadership of their own colonial possessions to independence with law and order.