GOLD COAST: White Metal & Black Men

In troubled Africa, a 50-50 bet for the future is the Gold Coast, a British dependency the size of Wyoming, scooped out of the continent's equatorial west. Since last year the Gold Coast has had 1) a written constitution, 2) a Legislative Assembly of 75 elected Negroes and nine whites, 3) a Negro Prime Minister, the first in any British colony, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Dr. Nkrumah disturbs some people in Downing Street, since he is a Marxian-Socialist who got his schooling at Pennsylvania's all-Negro Lincoln University and had to be let out of a British jail when his fellow...

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