EASTERN AID
Uganda To Go Left (N.Z.P.A .‘Reuter—Copyright > KAMPALA (Uganda), Nov. 4. President Milton Obote said Uganda was looking to the East for development aid and that the country would soon move to the Left politically. He told a student meeting at his old school, Busoga College: “I believe that when we propose new schemes based on the party (ruling Uganda People’s Congress Party) conference resolutions, they will be outside the middle of the road, they will be Leftist. “We are a party of the people and the people are on the left-hand side of things. That is the shape of things to come . . .”
Dr Obote said Uganda was not aligned to either the Western or Eastern blocs—“but you can see signs that Uganda is leaning more towards the East.” He added: "Our association of 60 years with Britain cannot be dismissed. But the achievements of the eastern countries in the six and a half years in which their influence and activities have been taking place in Uganda cannot be dismissed. “In those six and a half years the East has moved very fast. There has been trade with them, student exchanges, and an eastern country (the Soviet Union) is training the Uganda Air Force,” Dr Obote said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31828, 5 November 1968, Page 17
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