In Episode 5 we spoke a lot about the newly independent Tanzania, one of the biggest “shoppers” for assistance and allies making friends of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, Israel, the GDR, China and even Canada. A strange mix that should have helped Tanzania (or in fact Tanganyika) preserve its non-aligned status in the Cold war era.
In this bonus Dr. Thomas Maguire explains what kind of a presence Britain wanted to maintain in Tanganyika and whether it succeeded and what the archives suggest Tanganyika’s Prime Minister Julius Nyerere told the US ambassador about the kind of military he needs.
photo: Last Report of MI5 Security Liaison Officer Ronnie Jacobsen, April 1964, DO185-49, TNA
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