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“The Southwest African Mandate acquired through the intermediary of the British Crown, must simply be revoked, in order to allow the accession of this martyred territory to independence. Meanwhile we request that economic, political and diplomatic sanctions should be taken against the so-called Republic of South Africa and its accomplice Portugal, which have instantly challenged the conscience of humanity. They must be made to see reason in the interest of world peace. 55. Also, the United Nations must do everything in its power to bring about a settlement of the distressing Palestine problem, through the implementation of the various resolutions adopted at previous sessions. 56. Declarations of intention, appeals to so-called reason, or honeyed words will no longer-satisfy us.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“To the United Kingdom we say that displaying the list of decolonization honours is not sufficient to make us forget that our brothers in Bechuanaland; the Rhodesias, Nyasaland, Kenya and elsewhere are still bowed down under the colonial yoke. What we expect of the United Kingdom is that it should give without delay to the remainder of its colonial empire, the freedom to which the peoples, of those countries have as much right as those already represented in our Organization. 54. To South Africa we merely say that it is in the interest of its European population to adopt a racial policy of non-discrimination; otherwise it will have to bear full responsibility for the tragedy which the democratic revolution will certainly unleash upon that inhuman system.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Let Portugal heed our words, or it will be responsible for the catastrophe it is now preparing, which is likely to cost it more than any other country. There are many examples that might inspire Portugal to transfer immediately all the powers which it still holds by force of arms to the peoples it has so unjustly enslaved, peoples who can no longer bear the intolerable exploitation that has been imposed upon them for centuries. 52. As for Belgium, it should need only to recall the tragedy it caused in the very heart of Africa, in the Congo to realize that it should withdraw from Ruanda- Urundi with discretion, if that is still possible for a country that has almost plunged Africa into a fratricidal war without precedent. 53.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“We say to France that self-determination in Algeria has already made its impact and that the Algerian people have already won their independence. We say to France that it should recognize this obvious fact and transfer all the powers it holds in Algeria to the provisional government of the Algerian republic, which alone will decide what kind of relations it should establish between Algeria and all the other countries in the world, including France. 51. We say to Portugal that it should learn from the lessons of history and put an end to the needless massacres in the territories which it means to integrate against the clearly expressed wishes of their inhabitants. Portugal must evacuate the Cape Verde Archipelago, so-called Portuguese Guinea, Cabinda, Sao Tome, Angola, Mozambique, Goa etc.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Colonialism, then, is very healthy, since ithas very cunningly disguised itself in the mantle of neocolonialism. 49. Two years ago, when the great majority of African States were still under colonial domination, the Guinean Head of State, President Sekou Toure, made apathetic appeal to the colonial Powers to free Africa in a gesture of wisdom and reason, in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the Charter and for the sake of peace, progress and liberty throughout the world. Today, when the majority of African States have recovered their independence, we can only renew in the same spirit of conviction and faith, this appeal to the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and the supporters of apartheid. 50.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Wherever they have enjoyed this freedom fully, they have entrusted their destiny to their worthiest sons, the very men the colonial powers tried to exclude from positions of national responsibility. The Republic of Guinea is glad, for instance, that the nationalists of Nyasaland have won the latest election. Our country is convinced that any people is able at any moment to take its destiny effectively into its own hands. 48. The Republic of Guinea is convinced, however, and with good reason, that colonialism is not dead. Events have caused it to make a mere tactical withdrawal. Its strategy is to stir up plots here and there. The world knows of the plots which Guinea has escaped, thanks to the political maturity and awareness of its people.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In that regard the Republic of South Africa distinguishes itself shamefully, and the Guinean delegation hopes that the debate on agenda items 75 and 76 will lead this Assembly to take the necessary steps to make that country understand that its senseless policy of apartheid has lasted far too long. 4G. We claim, that the colonial system has hindered the historical development of the colonized countries. Indigenous forms of government had superimposed on them an alien system designed to protect interests incompatible with those of the inhabitants who were subjected to the new institutions. This duality led to the various nationalist movements in Africa and Asia, which were brutally repressed by the colonial Powers 47. The peoples should therefore be permitted freely to express their will.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“This does not mean that the Republic of Guinea is satisfied when one more flag flies under the Asian or African sky, or when it hears echoing the strains of new national anthems. What it asks of this Assembly is the decolonization of administrative, economic, social and cultural structures, in order that the personalities of the colonial peoples may be fully affirmed and that the Asian and African, having regained their dignity, may be able to contribute effectively to a better future for all mankind. It is most unfortunate that, for certain Members of this Assembly, only tile white man's dignity counts.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“This must be for one of two reasons: either the United Nations can impose no sanctions, in which case our delegation considers it essential to revise the Charter; or Portugal relies on some hidden protection, which explains the means available to it for the repression of African nationalism. 42. Portugal, is running the risk of a very rude awakening from its legendary lethargy, because the wind of independence will undoubtedly sweep away all the last vestiges of the conquistadores, from the Cape Verde Islands to Timor and its dependencies, through Principe Island and Mozambique. It is, in this respect, a little behind the other colonial Powers. Having been the first country to possess colonies, it presumably intends to cling to the tatters of a past which it imagines to have been glorious. . 43.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Our delegation regards it as deplorable that this State should for so long deliberately have committed many blatant acts of indiscipline, which are inconsistent with the obligations of Member States. Our delegation fully agrees with those which ask that exemplary political, diplomatic and economic sanctions should be taken against Portugal. 41. That a small under-developed country like Portugal should have the courage to go against the decisions of the United Nations calls for some comment, at least of which is that no country would be so rash unless it were certain of impunity.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“When adventurers from the coasts of Europe braved the stormy ocean in their sailing-ships, they did so, not in order to organize communities in Africa ol' Asia, but to bring back spices, gold, and ivory from those continents and to carry on the despicable trade in Negro slaves. This incapacity for self-government, which is gratuitously attributed to the colonized countries, is an insult to mankind and a sign of intolerable racialism, 39. Since colonialism must be ended, the delegation of the Republic of Guinea considers it its duty to lay stress on items 27, 79,82 and88 of the agenda adopted by this Assembly, which relate to the colonial policy of Portugal. 40.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“We welcome Sierra Leone's admission to the United Nations with enthusiasm, pride and satisfaction, since we are convinced that this brother country is fully committed, like the other independent African countries to the task of restoring the dignity of the black man, which the colonizers, to gain their own sordid ends, have scorned. Some of the colonial Powers still claim from this rostrum that colonial countries must serve their apprenticeship before they can gain independence. 38. This paternalism is simply shameful, since, I repeat, no country asked for colonial rule.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“This is why the anti-colonialist countries will continue to trust the United Nations, as long as it contributes effectively to the total liquidation of the colonial system and to the complete decolonization of the countries of Asia and Africa. 37. In this connexion, the Republic of Guinea is glad that the United Nations has moved in that direction by adopting resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960. It notes with some bitterness however, that, since that historic date for the colonial countries, only one territory, Sierra Leone has become independent.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“It is all these misdeeds of colonialism that worthy sons of Asia and Africa have denounced before the world, at the risk of being devoured by those insatiable wolves, the colonialists and imperialists. 34. Valiant patriots are still shedding their blood in Algeria, Angola, the Congo, Rhodesia, Kenya, so- called Portuguese Guinea and elsewhere, in order that the machinations of these modern buccaneers may cease. The war-mongers are using these countries as areas in which to test the weapons and techniques they use to gain their evil ends. 35. this Organization was founded at San Francisco, to prevent war and to ensure conditions permitting normal peaceful life and fruitful international cooperation. 36.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The veil of humanitarianism in which they cloaked themselves was in fact lifted by the impetuous wind of freedom that swept away nazism, unmasking racial discrimination, obscurantism, under-development and its train of miseries, all of them practices which enabled the colonialists to go on living in undisturbed peace and quiet, jealously guarding the immense wealth hidden underground and waiting for the right moment in order to derive enormous profits from it when the mineral resources of old Europe become depleted owing to the rapid advances of technology. 32. In order to prepare for this age of super-profits, a colonial economic policy would be scientifically worked out in parallel with the system of administration, so that there would be no industrialization, no modernization of agricultural methods and no training of technicians. 33.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In order to give , weight to their claims, moreover, some of them, with the stubbornness of blinkered mules and the tenacity of half-starved leeches, proclaim from this high rostrum the existence of constitutions tying them to their colonies, while others voice their indignation, in the name of human rights and the United Nations Charter, that their seizures of lands and their extreme racism, which they label apartheid, should be universally regarded as acts to be condemned, acts for which mankind itself demands reparation. 31. San Francisco was a radiant sun that rose for all the peoples that regained or preserved their freedom at the outcome of the Second World War. It is both paradoxical and deplorable that the representatives of those very same peoples should have failed, o4 that occasion, definitely to condemn the colonial system.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In the light of these facts which some, for obvious reasons, deliberately deny in the face of world opinion, it is utterly disheartening to hear it claimed that such and such a part of Africa is really an integral part, of such and such a metropolitan country, or a province of such and such another, for a proverb of my country teaches us that, no matter how long apiece of wood stays in the water, it will never become a crocodile. This, incidentally, explains the failure of all the measures of assimilation that have been attempted in various places by the colonialists.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“There, the trust of the indigenous inhabitants hias been abused, and the man to whom hospitality was generously shown soon usurped the place of the master of the house. Everywhere, all will to national resistance has been overcome by banishment, summary executions, cruelty and maltreatment of every kind, and the colonialist has arrogated to himself the right to think and to act in the place and stead of the colonized people. 30.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“However, inspired by the firm will of our peoples, by the feelings of solidarity that link Africa and Asia together, and by the deep desire for genuine independence, that is shared by the non-aligned countries, our delegation firmly resolves to co-operate seriously and effectively towards the achievement of these major objectives. Our basic concern still is to see a real strengthening of that irreplaceable instrument of international cooperation that is the United Nations. 29. Colonialism, as the Republic of Guinea has stated, and again repeats, is nothing more than the right of sheer force. Indeed, you will find nowhere, in all Africa or Asia, any country that has ever asked to be colonized. Here, colonization has been imposed by force of arms.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“We reject, in advance, any great Power club in which Africa and Asia are not reasonably and equitably represented. 27. With regard to the functioning of the Organization, it is extremely important that Africa and Asia should have equitable representation in the Secretariat, and that the latter, in order to play its full part should at all costs cease to be at the service of any bloc, any group of Powers, or any particular policy within the Organization. Naturally, this involves the responsibility of all Members of the Organization, and of the Security Council and the General Assembly in particular. 28. We are fully aware of juridical and political obstacles that stand in the way of the realization of these our legitimate aspirations.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“As regards the Security Council, account should be taken of the fact that the concept of greatness, as it was defined in 1945, is now to some extent obsolete. It is well known that, at that time, certain countries were considered great mainly on account of their colonial empires, which have since collapsed. This is a fact that should be recognized. Moreover, the total absence of Africa and the partial absence of Asia from the great Power club of permanent members of the Security' Council is another artificial situation that has seen its day. If the veto must be preserved, then Africa and Asia must be made full associates, so that they can bring their votes and the immense weight of their intact moral authority to bear on the settlement of major international questions.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“With regard to its conception, we must at all costs discard th© 1945 spirit of compromise between opposing' camps, a spirit that sacrificed the interests of the small Powers, and instead build an Organization based exclusively on the needs and interests of the peoples. In that Organization, as we have already said, all bodies of a colonial or semi-colonial nature must be abolished, and all continents and all great political and spiritual forces of the world must enjdy equitable representation in all its organs. In that connexion, after the abolition of the Trusteeship Council and the Fourth Committee, a new organization for cooperation and for the elimination of the underdevelopment inherited from the colonial systems might well take their place. 26.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“More specifically, the trusteeship system should simply be abolished, since in practice it has proved less conducive to the rapid emancipation of subject peoples than has the classical system of colonization by individual Powers. In any case, the implementation of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples (General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV)) postulated the end of trusteeship in all its forms. On this point the sixteenth session should formally proclaim this fundamental step forward. In due course our delegation will submit a specific resolution to that end. 25. However, the revision we call for involves the conception, organization and functions of the United Nations.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Such a revision would have to take into account emergence of numerous States from the ruins of the old empires, the existence and vitality of the Socialist countries, and the great awakening of a large number of States that are non-aligned but are fully dedicated to the realization of the noble aims of justice, equity, and co-operation, which are the essential basis for the maintenance of international peace and security. In this connexion we should rid our Organization once and for all of all the machinery set up in 1945 to deal with the colonies and Trust Territories, machinery that was created or maintained by the colonial Powers for the purpose of dragging the United Nations into their colonial adventure*?.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“What we seek, however, Is true, autonomous representation of Africa and Asia, as such, in the specialized agencies and in all organs of the United Nations, including the Secretariat, This can be achieved merely by amending the Charter, just as a redistribution of the existing seats could be effected amicably by a modification — following new negotiations — of the gentleman's agreement concluded in London in 1946. 24. However, if Africa and Asia are to make their fullest contribution to the activities of the United Nations, a fundamental revision of the Charter would of course be necessary.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“All the formulas now used to give Africa and Asia token representation in the principal organs of our Organization are the result of compromises and devices, all of which deliberately ignore the personality of Africa and Asia. The fact of the matter is for example, that Africa, as such, has no seat at all, in either the Security Council or the Economic and Social Council. It is true that several African representatives have been or still are members for the Near East, or for the Commonwealth, or under some similar formula.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“But, in addition to the question of the Secretariat, we must quickly tackle the substantive problems of amendment and revision of the United Nations Charter. 23. First of all, as far as necessary amendments are concerned, we say that it is vital to ensure equitable representation of Africa and Asia in the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and all those achieved by two methods which we consider complementary: by redistributing the existing seats — this can be done at any election — and by increasing the membership of those organs. Such an increase would of course require amendment of the Charter as provided in Article 108. This redistribution and increase in membership appear to us to be essential. Justice and dignity require them.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The best means to that end, and the only one acceptable to us, is negotiation, based exclusively on the interests of our Organization. We should choose a completely independent candidate, of absolute integrity and competence. Such a candidate must, of necessity, come from a country that is genuinely independent and practices a true policy of nonalignment. In this connexion, we make it clearly known that we shall oppose, openly fight and formally denounce any candidacy submitted within the framework or in the context of the cold war, even if it should involve an African or Asian willing to play the game of the blocs that confront each other in our Organization. Genuine independence true non-alignment — that is the criterion which our delegation proposes for the choice of the executive head of the United Nations. 22.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“That suggestion was inspired by the need to maintain an effective executive, and also to guard against the errors and inadequacies that, from time to time, we have had to deplore and denounce from this rostrum, as well as in Africa. 20. There does not appear to be any new factor justifying a modification of our fundamental position, for, discarding the narrow sectarian view, we believe sincerely that such a proposal could reconcile all the interests involved and enable the Executive of our Organization to face with honour, effectiveness, impartiality and loyalty the immense tasks of implementation which are assigned to him. 21. Our desire is, without unnecessary delay, to give our Organization such an effective and impartial Executive.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“We realize that such a review cannot be undertaken without the consent of the permanent Members of the Security Council, but we must quite frankly bring those permanent Members face to face with their responsibilities in this vitally important matter. We must urge them rapidly to find that minimum common ground that is essential if these urgently needed reforms are to be accomplished. 18. As regards the Secretariat, the Government of the Republic of Guinea did not wait until the present situation had arisen to make known its views. From this rostrum, at the fifteenth session [896th plenary meeting] President Toure expressed a clear preference for a single Secretary-General, who would, however, be assisted by an advisory committee of three Assistant Secretaries-General representing the three great political forces of the world. 19.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“Who, today, would venture to doubt the inadequacy of the provisions of the Charter — a Charter which has provided neither temporary measures nor any legal solution to the difficulties arising from the sudden death of the Secretary-General? Yet this lacuna is but a single aspect of the general inadequacy and inconsistency of the Charter. Nevertheless, it throws into sharp relief the urgent need to adapt this basic instrument to the new international situation which differs to completely from that prevailing in 1945. 16. For all these reasons the delegation of the Republic of Guinea very sincerely regrets the further record of inaction of the Committee on arrangements for a conference for the purpose of reviewing the Charter (A/4877). 17.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“There are, we "know, many different obstacles to the satisfaction of this legitimate demand. All of these, however, are connected with the question of amending or revising the United Nations Charter. On this point, as is our practice, we shall be quite frank and perfectly clear. 14. Originally conceived as a compromise, under conditions which have now disappeared, the Charter today is regarded by all as no longer adapted in its conception, organization and functioning to the realities of the present day. 15. This lag lies at the very root of the difficulties under which our Organization labours today — difficulties connected precisely with the question of the executive of the United Nations, one with which we are all concerned.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth sessions of the General Assembly, were quite rightly referred to as the "African sessions", all of them being dominated by the growing importance of Africa in the life and preoccupations, we would even say the trials, of the United Nations. We regret to note, however, that this importance of Africa and Asia is, in a way, confined to the precincts of the General Assembly. 13. We are still almost unrepresented in the principal organs, where the decisions of our Organization are really worked out and implemented. Even when they are admitted, Africans and Asians have the impression that they are not fully accepted. They will no longer be content merely to speak; they ask now to be associated, in the principal organs and specialized agencies, with the real life of the United Nations.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“With the recent admission of Sierra Leone, there are now twenty-six independent African States in the United Nations, which make up more than a quarter of its total membership; and who knows what these figures will be by the close of the sixteenth session of the General Assembly? 10. The proportions for Asia are about the same. It goes without saying that this numerical importance is not the only factor that must be taken into account. 11. The last three sessions have devoted most of their deliberations to the problems posed, for various reasons and in various forms, by the political, economic, and cultural decolonialization of Africa and Asia. A mere reading of the agenda just adopted indicates clearly that the sixteenth session, in turn, will have to give prolonged consideration to these same problems. 12.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In this connexion a few dates, a few figures and a few facts will indicate, more eloquently than any speech could possibly do, the vital urgency of adapting the structure of the United Nations to present day realities, and, in particular, the urgency of giving Africa and Asia the places they are entitled to demand, as of right, in the major organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations. 9. In 1945, Africa was represented on the international scene in a purely symbolic manner. Only three African States took part in framing the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco Conference.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“May the gravity of the situation so created at least open the eyes and ears of those who fly in the face of all the evidence, and persist in remaining deaf and blind to all our warnings and cries of alarm. In any event, this last crime once again confirms our deep-rooted conviction that decolonization is the key problem upon which, more than on any other, the maintenance of international peace and security, and therefore the realization of the major aims of the United Nations Charter depend. It is true that decolonization must, as it were, be initiated where colonization exists in Africa and Asia. But we must proclaim from this rostrum the necessity of extending decolonization principal organs of the United Nations. This could be wherever it may be required, particularly in the very structure of the United Nations itself. 8.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“In the opinion of our delegation, as the Foreign Minister of Ghana has already said on our behalf [1010th plenary meeting], there can be no doubt: Secretary-General Hammarskjold died a victim of the same colonialist and racist forces whose united front, organized and financed in broad daylight, assassinated Patrice Lumumba and his associates, and is now striving at all costs to prevent the inevitable decolonization of Central and East Africa. These are the same forces now surrounding the Congo, Angola, Southwest Africa, South Africa, Rhodesia, Rwanda-Urundi, Uganda, Kenya, Nyasaland, Mozambique and all the other dismembered parts of that region of our beloved continent with a ring of blood and flame. 7.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“More than any other spiritual family, more than any other political group in the United Nations, the African-Asians have cause to evidence their grief and concern at the sudden loss of the executive head of our Organization. They have done so, as it were, almost spontaneously. At a meeting held a few hours after the announcement of the Secretary-General's passing, the African-Asian group expressed the keen emotion, the sense of profound shock, the deep concern and the grave forebodings that filled all its members at the news of the tragic death of the Secretary- General and his colleagues. Our group also stressed the urgent need for an immediate, detailed and complete investigation to establish the full facts and determine responsibility. 6.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“It is our hope, and the hope of all the peoples of Africa and Asia, that this Presidential term, opening at a time of very delicate problems, will stand out, in the stormy history of our Organization, by virtue of the peculiar stamp of Africa and Asia, and that all our peoples, tomorrow, will have reason only to rejoice because, in 1961, one of their own acceded to the high office of President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. 4. To the many causes of international tension has now been added the death Ox' Secretary-General Hammarskjold, which adds a further important factor to an already sombre international situation that is causing grave concern to all peoples and all States. 5. The African-Asian group could not remain indifferent to the tragic circumstances in which the sixteenth session of the General Assembly opens.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“For all those who have fought, for all those who have sacrificed, and for all those who continue to fight, to toil unremittingly and to sacrifice, for the full emancipation of our peoples, for the affirmation of the African personality, and for the restoration to the States of Africa and Asia of their legitimate places and their proper roles in the concert of nations, for all these architects of our independent future the election of an African to the highest office in the United Nations is more than a test and more than a confirmation. It is the pledge given by initial success that farther, and more significant, successes must surely follow.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)
“2. The sixteenth session, like the three preceding sessions in which the delegation of the Republic of Guinea has taken part, will once again, and to a very significant degree, bear the imprint of Africa and its problems — the problems of decolonialization, and therefore also the problems of peace. 3. The first election of an African as President of the General Assembly of our Organization indisputably marks another turning point in the life of the United Nations.”
1961-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 16 (1961)