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...present, the U.N., with the help of the U.S., is busily engaged in destroying the only base on which the ex-Belgian Congo can thrive, and precipitating Katanga into the same chaos as the rest of the country. The U.S. seems to be like a ship driven by the winds of the opinion of the anti-Western part of the world. It is becoming more and more evident that Europe and its friends will have to save themselves from their enemies in spite of the "help...
...mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia. He was the solemn black defender of white capitalism in middle Africa, a rarity; yet he sneered at his Belgian sponsors as deceitful, and at the U.S. as "cowardly and decadent." He was urbane and charming, with a clever turn of phrase couched invariably in excellent French. But he was also superstitious enough to blame messengers for any bad news they bore, and he was volatile and unpredictable; often Tshombe...
This central government must have at least the resources that the Belgian administrators had available to them --the resources of Katanga. Perhaps additional capital will come to a new Congo state from private investors and organizations such as the World Bank. But domestic order--which presupposes the subduing of secessionist revolt, and control of the national wealth--must come first...
...Bilsen left his post as professor of Congonese government and legislation in the Belgian state-university system to come to Harvard in September as a research associate in the Center for International Affairs. The Belgian government's censure of his articles on the Congo influenced this decision...
...Belgian scholar decried the "obsession in the United States for injecting the question of communism into situations where it is not a major issue." He said that building a nation and a better life for the Congo's people must come before participation in the East-West struggle...