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...protect the Congo!" said Baudouin, and formally proclaimed its independence. But New Premier Patrice Lumumba, jealous of the limelight everyone else was enjoying, took the opportunity to launch a vicious attack on the departing Belgian rulers. "Slavery was imposed on us by force!" he cried, as the King sat shocked and pale. "We have known ironies and insults. We remember the blows that we had to submit to morning, noon and night because we were Negroes!" Deeply offended, King Baudouin was ready to board his plane and return to Brussels forthwith. Only the urging from his ministers persuaded...
...humorous exceptions: one white motorist driving along a main road was suddenly confronted by a earful of Congolese who skidded through an intersection shouting hilariously "Mind the citizens!" The only serious growls came from across the river in the French Congo, where Premier Abbe Fulbert Youlou complained that the Belgian Congolese had niched the same title-Republic of Congo -that his autonomous (but not fully independent) country had already taken for itself...
...scene was set in the unfinished grand ballroom of what was to have been the Belgian Governor's new official residence. Now it was the debating hall of the Congo's first Parliament. A grey wastebasket was pressed into service as the voting urn. Amid the happy hubbub, a black soldier loped down the aisle, crying, "Mr. President of the Provisional Assembly, he has arrived!" As the President strode briskly to his seat, his Belgian adviser whispered, "Have you got your hammer...
...nervous Belgians could only guess at the policies Lumumba will pursue. He would like to eliminate the Senate, which he considers the stronghold of the conservative tribal chiefs. He has promised not to nationalize the big Belgian interests and professes to guarantee the safety of other foreign investment, but his socialist inclinations are strong. In foreign policy, his line will probably be neutralist, following the example of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, whom Lumumba admires. Whether Lumumba could forge any coherent policy out of his cumbersome new executive structure seemed open to question, for he had promised so many things...
...mending in a Manhattan hospital after removal of a chronic duodenal ulcer that had plagued him for some 25 years; Driver Stirling Moss, 30, bedded in a London hospital with two broken legs, a broken nose and a crushed vertebra after cracking up in a practice spin for the Belgian Grand Prix-but promising, as befits the world's best hell-for-rubber speed merchant, that he will go "straight back to racing" when his injuries heal...