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...Your readers should feel under an obligation for your excellent May 16 story on the Belgian Congo. In these days when Communism is seeking to dominate the world, this story is a successful illustration of how one nation is meeting its responsibility as a colonial power...
Your story is, for the most part, an excellent summary of conditions in Belgian Congo . . . But Protestant missions also play a highly significant role there. At least 1,500 missionaries (more than half of them Americans) serve a rapidly growing Protestant Christian community numbering 1,600,000. One-third of all the pupils are enrolled in Protestant schools. Their medical centers gave over 5,000,000 treatments last year...
Allow me to congratulate you for your brilliant article on Belgian Congo. A few years ago I was lucky enough to go and work and get acquainted in the "timeless jungle" with those "dwarf antelope," and in "Black and White Leo" with those "highly trained business executives...
...These can be dictated to us only by ourselves, who thoroughly know Belgian Africa. We know what imperatives are imposed upon us by our sovereignty, and this sovereignty must be exercised by us -without sharing." In other words, Belgium's particular paternalism (TIME, May 16) would continue to prevail...
...trees swarmed with black urchins and the crowds along the road shouted "Vive le Roi!" as Leopoldville welcomed young (25) King Baudouin to the Belgian Congo's steamy, metal-rich and thriving jungleland. Resplendent in white-and-gold uniform, Baudouin was the first Belgian monarch the Congo had seen since 1928, when grandfather Albert I visited a far less prosperous and bustling Congo...