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Whereupon Tshombe announced that unless Massamba-Debat immediately stopped supporting the Congolese rebels, some 50,000 Brazzaville citizens who live in Leopoldville would be deported. Tshombe's object: to overload Brazza ville's shaky economy, fan enough dis content to overthrow Massamba-Debat's already strife-torn government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Across the River & into the Mess | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

Presently the Free French escort vessels Savorgnan de Brazza and Commandant Dominé steamed into Libreville harbor and General de Gaulle broadcast from nearby Leopoldville: "Gabon has been on the side of the Free French forces since yesterday. . . . Marshal Foch and the eleventh of November are connected in our memory with the glory of victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: De Gaulle at Gabon | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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