The Reds and the Blacks, a Personal Adventure

The author was an ambassador to Africa during the era of Adlai Stevenson and John Kennedy. He observed the Soviet and Chinese efforts to exploit Africa, and the American efforts to stop them. "It's about some of the things I learned in Africa-and in our government-during more than five years as an American am­bassador working for two Presidents As the title suggests, it is essentially about what I saw of Soviet and Chinese efforts to penetrate and subvert Africa, and what we and the Africans and others did to counter these efforts. In both Guinea and Kenya I was up against the opposition at close enough range to understand why they have so far failed."