Word: adoula
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Even if there is no further fighting, getting Tshombe and Adoula to meet will be difficult enough. Tshombe is afraid of going to Leopoldville, fearing for his safety, and for prestige reasons Adoula is reluctant to meet Tshombe elsewhere. The terms of an agreement, once a meeting is arranged, will present an even more difficult problem. Even if Tshombe agrees-in effect at gunpoint-to join a Congo federation, the specific degree of each province's independence must be worked out, including the question of who disposes of Katanga's income...
...Adoula is under pressure from the U.S. to be generous toward Tshombe, if he is willing to end the secession. The question remains how generous Adoula can afford to be without weakening his own position in the eyes of his supporters and his left-wing rivals. Any major concessions to Tshombe will produce charges from Communist-supported Gizenga that the central government has sold out to the colonial interests. Adoula's prestige has not been helped by the fact that, so far at least, the U.N. has operated against Katanga entirely without the help of the central government...
Negotiating an agreement with Tshombe, tempering the bitterness left in Katanga, strengthening Adoula enough to enable him to cope with Gizenga, building a reasonably efficient and civilized administration in the Congo-all these are staggering tasks looming beyond the battle of Katanga. It is inconceivable that they can be carried out by the Congolese without outside help, which presumably will have to come from or through the U.N. Contemplating the travail of the Congo, which has a large Roman Catholic population, Pope John XXIII said last week: "Just as it was about to harvest, from political independence, the long-awaited...
...reasonably expect that the negotiations between Tshombe and Adoula will be smooth sailing in any respect. The reduced status that Adoula envisions for Tshombe is a long way from the power he has had as an autonomous "national" leader; and it is even further from the conception--which he himself may have begun to believe--of Tshombe as the Congo's White Hope...
...Britain forced a broader debate, insisting that the Council consider any secessionist problem, from whatever direction, put its weight behind a constructive program to strengthen Premier Adoula's central government. The U.S. was urging that Adoula's army be reorganized and given a "small but effective air force" to back up Congolese ground troops; this would not be good news for Katanga's Tshombe, who, with his own little handful of planes, has been able to launch deadly forays against both Adoula's forces and the U.N. itself from time to time...