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Earlier at the U.N. and again in Washington, Lumumba hammered away at a single theme: the U.N. must get the Belgian troops out of the entire Congo, including secession-minded Katanga province. "After the Belgian troops leave, peace will be restored in five minutes," he told a U.N. press conference. "If the Belgian troops left tomorrow, that would be fine. But if they left today, that would be even better." Lumumba backed away smoothly from his big development contract with U.S. Promoter Louis Edgar Detwiler: "Only an agreement in principle." (Privately he admitted the contract was "a terrible mistake...
...knocked down by two of the Mosleyites, whose slogan is "Keep Britain White!" Unscathed, as usual, Patrice Lumumba reached New York's Idlewild airport this week. Speaking to a dawn patrol of newsmen, Lumumba said softly that peace in Congo "is conditioned on the immediate withdrawal of Belgian troops," and offered his "compliments and friendship" to President Eisenhower. Signing autographs on his way through the air terminal, and looking more like an earnest divinity student than a political boss, Patrice Lumumba slipped into a rented Cadillac and was whisked off through the sleeping borough of Queens to Manhattan...
...countries in Africa proved more receptive to the work of Christian missions than the Belgian Congo. Since 1878, when the first Protestant missionaries (Baptists) arrived, their numbers grew impressively to 2,000 (some 1,200 of them Americans), plus 5,500 Roman Catholics...
AMID the political turmoil in the Belgian Congo last week, one U.S. businessman turned up with what he termed "a great victory for the Western world." The man is Louis Edgar Detwiler, 62, a tough, steely-eyed international promoter who signed a 50-year contract with Premier Patrice Lumumba to act as adviser for the development of the new nation's mineral, oil, gas and hydroelectric-power resources. Through the company he organized only a month ago, called Congo International Management Corp. (CIMCO), Detwiler hopes-if the Congo Parliament ratifies the deal-to mastermind projects to build airports, pipelines...
...stock. Another version is that the Liberian government pressured Detwiler out because he was not producing. Still, the Liberian experience led Detwiler to other African leaders. He met Lumumba's private secretary recently. On July 11 he flew to the Congo from Brussels in a plane loaded with Belgian paratroopers. Detwiler says he has no idea how much money the Congo project will need. CIMCO has authorized 1,000,000 shares of $1-par-value stock but only $10,000 worth has been sold. CIMCO's board members-engineers, bankers and lawyers-represent several millions in assets...