CONCERN IN AMERICA

Press, Volume C, Issue 29633, 2 October 1961, Page 11

CONCERN IN AMERICA

“Pro-Soviet” Position

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, September 30 United States Administration sources were expressing concern over signs that Ghana was “inching more and more towards a pro-Soviet position in foreign affairs and Marxist dictatorship at home,” the “New York Times” reported today. A Washington dispatch said the latest cause for concern was the Ghanaian move on Thursday for a major shakeup in the Government. “The shake-up indicated victory for a rising group of young radical nationalists, many of whom accompanied Mr Kwame Nkrumah on his recent two-month tour of Communist bloc countries,' the dispatch said.

It said there were several other reasons for United States concern over Ghana’s future.

Among them were President Nkrumah’s close identification with Soviet policies on general and complete disarmament. Berlin, and the “troika” plan for reorganising the United Nations Secretariat into a tripartite body representing the West, the Communist nations and the non-aligned States. Other reasons were the removal earlier this week of Major - General H. T Alexander of Britain, •as Ghana's Chief of Staff; and a bill, expected to pass Parliament, that would give the Government the right to gaol for three years any person it deemed was publishing or spreading by word of mouth defamatory or insulting material concerning President Nkrumah.

Australian T.T.—A Victorian driver. Bib Stillwell, today won the 1961 Australian Tourist Trophy for sports cars at Mount Panorama, Bathurst, by almost a lap. He drove a Cooper Monaco.—Sydney, Oct. 1.