15. Editorial Note
Effective September 10, the Department of State established the new position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs. The existing Office of African Affairs was divided into the Office of Northern Africa Affairs and the Office of Southern Africa Affairs. The former had primary responsibility for the conduct of United States relations with Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, British and French Somalilands and Somalia, and the Spanish Sahara. The latter was concerned with United States relations with the Union of South Africa, Liberia, Angola, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, the Belgian Congo, the Cameroons (British and French), French [Page 48] Equatorial Africa, French West Africa, the Gold Coast, Spanish and Portuguese Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Ruanda-Urundi, Sierra Leone, South-West Africa, Swaziland, Tanganyika, French Togoland, Uganda, Zanzibar, and various British and French Indian Ocean islands.