may 9, 1956 - Referendum Br. Togoland 1956

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The UN appointed a staff under Plebiscite Commissioner Eduardo Espinosa y Prieto to supervise all the stages of the voting.
Miss Ruth Galevo, of the Ewe Presbyterian Church middle school in Kpedze, reading her prize-winning essay on the plebiscite to Mr. Espinosa Y. Prieto, United Nations Plebiscite Commissioner. The recording is being make for U.N. Radio by Mr. Richard de Roussy de Sales.
01 May 1956
193,000 Registered (Registration started 10th of Jan)
423,000 Total population
Ho, British Togoland

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