dec 27, 1951 - Olympio leaves UAC
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ca. Dec 1951Olympio resigned from the United Africa Company in December 1951 while working in the company’s Paris office. Fearful of his continued efforts to promote Ewe unification, Louis Jacquinot, minister of Overseas France, demanded his transfer to London, hoping to “put on him the label of Anglophile and damn him.” David Fieldhouse, “British Merchants and French Decolonization: UAC in Francophone Africa (1945–1960),” in L’Afrique noire française: L’heure des indépendances, ed. Charles-Robert Ageron and Marc Michel (Paris: CNRS, 1992), 491–92.
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dec 27, 1951
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~ 74 years ago