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...Belgium should ever decide to dispose of territory in it. This, said Wigny indignantly, might have applied in the 19th century, "but today territories and their inhabitants are no longer goods that can be the object of international trade." In Paris, French officials sought to mollify the protesting Belgian ambassador: they were just pointing out the old agreement, not making something of it. But the Belgians were not easily reassured, for their Lower Congo is controlled by fire-breathing Congolese Politician Joseph Kasavubu, who for weeks has been demanding just what the French seem to want-that the region...
Obviously not Katanga's Africans, who are 98% of the population, and want no new white masters. A likelier bet would be that the big Rhodesian and British mining interests, which own substantial shares in Katanga's rich Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga mining group, and perhaps Belgian industrialists themselves, were behind it all. Welensky talks of fearing a blood bath and "rampant tribalism" on his northern frontier, would welcome a buffer state against African nationalism...
Under a hot Caribbean sun at 3 p.m. one day last week, stevedores on Havana's eastern waterfront bent to a task of No. 1 priority in Fidel Castro's Cuba. In the holds of the 4,310-ton French freighter La Coubre, were 76 tons of Belgian artillery shells, grenades and small arms ammunition. Most of it never reached its destination. At that hour, a shuddering blast rocked the vessel, hurling exploding shells, steel deck plates and human fragments aloft in a pillar of fire...
...imminent almost everywhere. There, independent Ghana, Guinea and Liberia will soon be joined by the rest of France's fragmenting African empire. At least seven new sovereign African states will come into existence in 1960. First on the timetable was Cameroon; soon to come: Togoland, the sprawling, wealthy Belgian Congo, the Mali Federation of Senegal and French Sudan, little Somalia, and Madagascar. On Oct. 1, the 35 million people of Nigeria, most populous of all, will get formal independence. By year's end, 180 million of the continent's 240 million people will be under black rule...
...faint wave of uneasiness had begun to spread across the nation. Then, at lunchtime on Friday, the long-awaited report was issued that all four doctors were once again "in attendance." Finally, a little after 3:30 p.m., Prince Philip burst out of Buckingham Palace's Belgian suite, beaming. "It's a boy!" he told attendants, and then rushed to telephone Prince Charles at Cheam School...