The Security Council of the United Nations has just voted to recommend to the General Assembly that Cameroun (or Kamerun—it hasn’t quite decided how to spell its name) be admitted to UN membership. Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Ghana and Guinea were promptly seated as soon as they acquired the minimum trappings of independence. In December France conceded independence to the Mali Republic (Sudan plus Senegal). Mauretania, Dahomey and Togoland are expected to follow this spring. Italian Somaliland will become independent in July, Nigeria in October. Self-government, with independence close behind, is already on the 1960 schedule for British Somaliland, the Belgian Congo, Tanganyika, Sierra Leone.
These nations, as they will regard themselves, will all become UN members, and there are plenty more where these came from. They will take their seats alongside Afghanistan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Nepal and Yemen; and alongside, with equal voice and vote, the United Kingdom, the USSR, France and the United States.
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