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...society. When a sedan with U.N. license plates drove up, the soldiers were sure some kind of plot was being hatched. Quickly they surrounded the car, shouting and gesticulating wildly at the two startled occupants. Australian-born George Ivan Smith, acting U.N. chief in Katanga, and Brian Urquhart, a Briton transferred to the Congo from U.N. Manhattan headquarters only a few days before...
...finish off the victim with a bullet in the head. The body was then supposedly taken to a refrigerator in a nearby laboratory and later buried at a still undisclosed place. But in a different version, the evidence points to another Belgian, one Colonel Huyghe, as the killer. A Briton serving with the Katanga army at the time testified that Huyghe later boasted of how Lumumba's two fellow prisoners were shot as they knelt to pray. Then Huyghe waited for Patrice himself to enter the room. Testified the Briton: "When Lumumba walked in, he started screaming and crying...
...black boots and waterproofs, blonde hair stuffed carelessly into a green helmet, pert Jill Savage looked like a B-movie caricature of a reformatory-bound juvenile delinquent. But Cyclist Savage, 23, is more than a thrill-happy young Briton. She is a grim competitor in one of the world's most harrowing and hazardous sports: cross-country motorcycle racing. Fortnight ago, she startled 268 male competitors by winning a bronze medal in motorcycling's most rugged contest: the International Six-Day Motorcycle Trial-a grueling, 1,200-mi. marathon, run through the mountainous backwoods of Wales...
...French, bomb throwers Bulgars, weeping drinkers Polish or Russian, and anyone who keeps a lioness as a pet is certain to be British. Author Joy Adamson was born in Vienna, but years of marriage to a senior game warden in Kenya were sufficient to infect her with a Briton's daft fondness for treating animals the way other people treat children...
When My Girl Comes Home, by V. S. Pritchett. Dry and controlled tales by a Briton with a keen eye for the madness that squirms in view when the ordinary is overturned...