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...second rescue column was forced to retreat to its base at Bunia. As Russian and Red Chinese weapons continued to move in through Uganda and the Sudan, military experts in Leopoldville estimated that Simba firepower had already surpassed that of the Congolese and mercenary forces. Against that background, U.S., Belgian and Congolese diplomats last week began groping about for a "political solution" to the Congo's chaos...
...purpose had been "to exterminate the black inhabitants," but Guinean Foreign Minister Louis Beavogui thought it had been carried out "to keep Africa within the orbit of the imperialist powers," and Kenya's Foreign Minister Joseph Murumbi called it a "sordid collusion, a calculated attempt to impose American-Belgian domination in the Congo." For Tanzanian Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona, it "will go down in history as the meanest, most unwarranted and provocative interference by the Western world in the affairs of the African continent...
...Parliament, he refused to make the political compromises necessary to form a working coalition government, quickly alienated almost every important power base in the Congo. Headstrong, unstable and perpetually frenzied, Lumumba never even tried to govern. His army rebelled less than a week after he took office; his Belgian civil servants fled in terror; vital provinces tried to secede; and the land, neither administered nor policed, reverted to darkness. Howling all the while about white imperialism, Patrice Lumumba himself did not hesitate to sell the exploitation rights to the Congo's vast resources to a fast-talking American promoter...
Painfully Close. That was too much for Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, one of the U.N.'s founding fathers. With quiet force, he told the Council that such talk was "painfully close to that type of racist feeling which has been so heatedly denounced" by the Africans themselves. "There is no such thing as a guilty race," said Spaak. "There have only been misguided men and contemptible men. Hitler was a contemptible man, and I regret to say Gbenye is a contemptible...
...PIERRE ALECHINSKY, 37, is a balding Belgian who claims that copying nature bores him. Yet, says he, "my work, provoked by emotion and spontaneity, will never be abstract. It will always represent man." But man is a strange creature to Alechinsky, brought up on a tradition of Hieronymus Bosch and James Ensor, and his provocations have led to a bestiary of amorphous animals, gloopy noggins, jumbles of legs. For him, "the canvas is a proving ground, not a screen to hide behind...