S/P–NSC files, lot 61 D
167, “North Africa”
Memorandum by Harry H.
Schwartz of the Policy Planning’ Staff to the
Executive Secretary, National Security Council (Lay)1
secret
Washington, March 19, 1954.
Subject:
- NSC Consideration of
Africa
I submit herewith a list of African problems which have a bearing on
United States security interests in that Continent. This list is
applicable to Africa as a whole, but, as was brought out at the
Planning Board meeting of March 3, United States policy problems
with respect to this extensive Continent should at least be broken
down into three main areas: North Africa (French North Africa and
Libya), the Union of South Africa, and the area between those
two.
Harry H.
Schwartz
NSC Planning Board
Assistant
Department of State
[Enclosure]
Paper Prepared in the Department of
State2
List of African
Problems
- 1.
- Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Time Factor in Africa
(subtitle: The Problem of Determining the Proper Rate of
Advance in the Development of African Territories Towards
Democratic Self Government)
- 2.
- Africa’s Strategic Importance, Viewed in Relation to the
Defense of the Free World
- 3.
- Africa’s Importance to the Free World as a Source of
Strategic and Industrial Raw Materials
- 4.
- Economic Development in Africa
- 5.
- The Extent of Communist Infiltration in Africa
- 6.
- The Extent of Asian Influence and Penetration in
Africa
- 7.
- Racialism in Africa (subtitle: The Problem of Multi-Racial
Societies in Africa)
- 8.
- Regional Differences in Africa (subtitle: Their Influence
on the Future Development of the Continent’s Principal
Regions)
- 9.
- The Relationship between the Metropolitan Powers and their
African Dependencies (subtitle: An Assessment of the Actual
Intrinsic Importance of African Territories to the
Metropoles)
