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...granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Japan's Prime Minister in the 1890s and one of the builders of modern Japan. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Reischauer was sharply critical of "the shocking misestimate of the situation" by his predecessor, Douglas MacArthur II (who will head the Belgian embassy in his next post), during the riots that brought cancellation of President Eisenhower's visit to Japan last spring. Of particular appeal to the Administration is Reischauer's intimate knowledge of Korea as well as Japan. The State Department would like to bring Korea back into Japan...
...Lumumba really escaped? Or was it all a careful plan by Tshombe's men to conceal a political assassination? Tshombe is Lumumba's deadly enemy, and some of Tshombe's Belgian backers might be anxious to eliminate a foe who was getting greater and greater backing for a comeback among the U.N.'s members. For days, Elisabethville's gossip mills had buzzed with rumors that Lumumba had been shot in jail. According to one story, the famous prisoner had died from a bullet on the morning of Jan. 18, a day after he was shipped...
Continuing the pattern, the Associated Press reported fears that "illiterate millions in the Congo may regard Lumumba as a martyr." One wonders where Western apprehensions were hidden during the years in which Belgian rule virtually forbade education in the Congo...
...deep into Eastern province in an effort to smash the pro-Lumumba forces of Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville. Gizenga's own troops launched new forays into Kasai province. Rampaging Lumum-baists in Kivu ambushed 200 U.N. Nigerian soldiers, provoking a pitched, daylong battle. In Katanga, Tshombe sent his Belgian-piloted airplanes to bomb the invaders of his province, killing none of the enemy but blasting innocent tribesmen and a missionary medical station...
Since coming to NATO in 1957 as successor to Britain's Lord Ismay, Spaak has kept aloof from Belgian politics, is not tainted by any association either with last summer's Congo crisis or with the strikes, which cost Belgium an estimated $230 million and reopened the ancient quarrel between the northern Walloons and the southern Flemings. Spaak laid down one condition for his return to Belgian politics: virtually a free hand in the management of Socialist Party affairs. With no other candidate of comparable stature in sight, the Socialists reluctantly agreed. "Citizen Spaak is really very demanding...