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...Loophole. But on the impetus of their outrage, the Africans were ready to rush through a new proposal produced by Liberia, Ceylon and the U.A.R. It called for the reconvening of the Congolese Parliament under U.N. protection, urged that Congolese army units (of all factions) be "reorganized" (i.e., disarmed), and pressed for the withdrawal from the Congo of Belgian and other foreign troops and political advisers. Most important, the U.N. was authorized to use force "if necessary" to block the Congo's threatened civil...
...lesser benefices conferred by Britain's empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire slowly dissolved, most colonials seized the first chance to convert to a saner system. India, Pakistan and Ceylon switched to a decimalized rupee, Canada and Singapore to a decimalized dollar. Last week South Africa, whose Afrikaner government is intent on being as separate from Britain as it can be without taking itself out of the Commonwealth, replaced the pound with a decimal system of Rands and cents...
Finding the Ford. Convinced that their hero had indeed been done in, eleven pro-Lumumba nations (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Libya, India, Indonesia, U.A.R., Ceylon, Russia and Yugoslavia) petitioned the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold for an immediate investigation. Moscow radio-which has reason to be expert in such matters-went on the air with a prediction that the whole escape story had been manufactured as a cover ("shot while escaping") to explain away the fact that Lumumba would be found dead. In Katanga, Moise Tshombe, busy in conferences with a visiting foreign dignitary, seemed totally unconcerned. "President Tshombe does...
...Since 1952, Ceylon has been piling up credits in Peking because the Chinese have not been able to make good on a trade agreement that called for the exchange of Chinese rice for Ceylonese rubber...
Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized-i.e., confiscated-the Egyptian press; and in Ceylon, a self-styled democracy, newly elected Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike threatened to seize the country's two largest news paper groups for opposing her during the campaign. Of 17 new African states, just one - Nigeria - was born with a free press...