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The Week Vol. 1, No. 3, 15 January 1964 · p. 9 of the scan · 553 words

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* rocont speech of Goneral Humberto . Doelgedo (loader of the anti- Salazar Movimiento Nacional _Incopon lento) pelon ed in London by the MI repre osontrtive and reported statemonts by Toldon Roberto (lec ae ar of the Angolan gsovernmont=in-~ex tle) the ow new light on US policios and indicate 2a change in the policics o the anti-Selazar and Jngolen liberation forees, General Delg sado't s spooch contcins the follcwing + statenonts

"io tricd to the utmost of our paticonce to obtnin from Vestern wurepenn and American powers the support and sympathy that would be necessary for the restoration of demo racy in Portugal anc the poaverul attainnent | of nntional independence by all Portuguese colonial possessions, It is my prinful duty to roe ord here that thore is at the moment vory Little to expect from those countries with whose causes, principles and institutions we idantify ourselves. Such are the oquivoonl nee of those powers that we sre forved to conclude that they have be:sone inatitutionslised to such a degree that they rosenble huge wont oeeial enterprises similar to their own “superinc wrkote™ and, like thon, only doaling in short tor retail trans sactionse Forhaps the fact thot,we, for the duration, are in no positien to may, accounts fer their total indifference to our roponted knooks at thoir GCOrS«s.ecee

"6 an of ficinl lovel the ettustion becories of MTagiem and Fasciom have boon eradually ade be United States, se conspicuous an “Gatorve ntionis LY cube and Sout isia, chooses to be respo. tably "friendly to the ostallisned authorit; whon it comes to vortuymls; “Jestorn Cormany, back at the business of potronising all reactionsy causes in the world, hos rescued the former climate of Gormon~Portuguose relations by estvolishing an aire nse at Beja, in Portugal, from ymere it carrie 5 out oxercisses that cannot but have an intimidating effect on the Portuguese, Croat Teitain has rece~ ntly boon departing from her traditions of erenting politisnsl asylun end political freedom." Delyacdo goes on to call for the liberation of

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The New York 7 Mines of Saturday 4th JTamuary carriocd the followings

the Angolan a Government ine ori Los «9 bas dezided to accept the help of Communist Chinn and "othor Communist countries" in tho fight to froe ajngola from Portugucse rule. “ithin a ‘nomth an Angolan delegation is oxpected to visit Felking at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Governmont, .frican diromatic sources saidoe. IT, Zoberto is considered a political moderate with essontinlly pro=Vestorn sympathies. hast month he mot foreigm minister Chen Yi of Communist Shina at Kenya's Snagpendence coloebrotions in Uairobi. Heo later mot Soviet and Cuban roprosentatives at the United Nations. ..ile has abendened hope, he said that the United States and other Vostern countries will press fortugal to negotiate with tho rob: 18s "l came to tho conclusion that the Nestor countrios are hypocritical," he declared, "They help our cnemies, while paying lip-service to not aoterainntion, tho U.S. supplics its North ‘ALaeticg ‘Treaty ally, Fortugal, with amas that are used to kill us."

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