53. Telegram 190919 From the Department of State to All African Diplomatic Posts1 2
Subject:
- Secretary’s Speech
From Secretary for the Ambassador
1. I am this evening addressing the Urban League on United States policy for Africa. This is a major presentation and, accordingly, I wish to have its contents drawn to the attention of the Chief-of-State and other appropriate senior officials. Text of speech will be transmitted separately and should be presented with following message from me:
2. Quote: Dear Mr. President: I am this evening, August 2, addressing the
Urban League, an important American civil rights organization, and
through them the American people, whose support is necessary for our
policies to succeed. I have asked my Ambassador to draw this speech to
your attention, because it enunciates to an American audience the major
elements of United States policy toward Africa with an emphasis on our
determination to proceed with our current efforts to help bring about a
solution to the problems of Southern Africa. My consultations with
African leaders and your conversations with our Ambassador have been
most useful to me in formulating our policy.
Best regards,
Henry A.
Kissinger
Unquote
3. Text of speech follows septel.
- Source: National Archives, RG 84, Nairobi Embassy Files: Lot 79 F 186, Box 5, POL-Africa General, 1976. Limited Official Use; Priority. Repeated Priority to Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Cairo. Drafted and cleared in AF; approved by Kissinger. The full text of the speech was published in the State Department Bulletin, Vol. LXXV, No. 1939, August 23, 1976, pp. 257–265, and was transmitted to all African diplomatic posts in telegram 190949, August 2. (Ibid., Box 7, POL 2 Reports/Statistics 1976)↩
- Secretary of State Kissinger asked that Ambassadors of addressee posts bring to the attention of host country chiefs of state his speech to the Urban League, with a message that the speech enunciated major elements of U.S. policy toward Africa.↩