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Leaving the frustrated and fuming Belgians behind, Hammarskjold turned down the offer of a Belgian jet to Leopoldville, boarded instead a KLM DC-7 to neutral Brazzaville, across the river in French Congo. Crossing the river in a launch, he soon was confronting the Congolese Cabinet. Prodded by sharp telegrams from Lumumba, the Cabinet insistently demanded that Hammarskjold use force if necessary to clear the Belgian troops out of Katanga...
...week's end, Katanga's pro-Belgian Premier Tshombe shipped a three-man delegation off to the U.S. to plead his independence cause and sent along Belgian Paratroop Colonel Guy Weber as "guide." Belgium's Premier Eyskens proclaimed: "The U.N. must not intervene in the internal affairs of Katanga." But Belgian officials conceded privately that it was only a matter of time and began looking for a face-saving way to get Katanga back into the Congo. The government pulled back a token 1,500 of the 10,000 troops in Katanga, and the Belgian National Bank...
...twelve of the new nations eased into independence without the convulsive birth spasms that racked the infant Belgian Congo Republic. Premier Debre promised to sponsor them in their candidacy for the United Nations. Echoing the leaders of the other states, all of whom will remain "associated" with the Community to reap its economic and political advantages, Gabon's Premier Leon M'Ba said: "You can count on Gabon's remaining with France for better or worse...
...Africans from the French colonies have received degrees from French universities in the past ten years, form a vital cadre of teachers, doctors, engineers and bankers necessary to the development of the new republics. Said a French government official with pride: "There can be no comparison between French and Belgian policies in Africa. They were diametrically opposed. Compared to the Belgian Congo, French Africa is overdeveloped...
Died. Desire Defauw, 74, Belgian symphony conductor, brought to the U.S. by Arturo Toscanini in 1939, subsequently musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1943-47) and of the Gary (Ind.) Symphony Orchestra from 1955 until his retirement in 1958; of pneumonia; in Gary...