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Originally, they had viewed erratic Premier Patrice Lumumba with alarm, closed the Congo's airports to his men, and refused him access to the radio station to stifle his dangerous demagoguery; now they seemed resigned to accepting his return to power. Originally, the U.N. had urged Belgian civilian experts (but not troops) to stay and help rebuild the Congo; now they were issuing strident warnings that Belgians were unwelcome...
Enter the Villain. Next, Dayal's U.N. officers turned their fire on the Belgians. They charged that 500 Belgians were arriving weekly on Sabena's nights from Europe, the aim being, as one U.N. report put it, "to re-establish the Belgian civil service and relegate United Nations technicians to lower echelons." Twice in two weeks Dag Hammarskjold sent sharp notes of protest to Belgium. Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny bluntly rejected the notes, argued that there was nothing wrong with bilateral technical aid to the Congo (Hammarskjold might reply that that was just what the Russians had said...
Within one short week after Belgium turned the Congo over to Patrice Lumumba last June 30, all but 100 of 1,200 Belgian doctors hastily packed their bags and fled-some of them alarmed by the breakdown of order, the stories of white nuns raped, the feeling that in many places a Belgian was no longer safe. Their departure left all but six of the fledgling nation's 400 hospitals manned only by nurses and semi-trained "medical assist ants." There were no Congolese doctors to fill the gap: the first Congolese admitted to medical school in more than...
...boat at Léopoldville for the long journey upcountry just as the flames of chaos had begun to spread through the new Congo nation. "It is purely and simply panic," he wrote home in early July. "I have passed seven boats headed downstream, all dangerously loaded with fleeing [Belgian] families. I am the only passenger headed into the interior-all alone on a 32-passenger steamer." He added: "I have had only friendly reactions from the Africans and anticipate no problems . . . They ask why there aren't Americans out here where they're needed and wanted...
Since their marriage last year, ex-R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, 45, unlucky in love with Princess Margaret, and his second wife, Belgian ex-Photographer Marie-Luce, 21, have lived quietly in a Paris suburb, collaborated on the house work, relaxed with morning constitutionals. Arriving in Manhattan last week, they put up in a modest hotel. Townsend, who once snidely ticked off the U.S. as a materialistic nation of salesmen, had possibly come to the U.S. to sell something but craftily kept the exact nature of his fortnight's ''business trip" a stiff-upper-lipped mystery...