Word: charging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Griggs was on the job as Congolese troops hovered outside the U.N.-guarded embassy-residence of Ghanaian Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck, trying to get at the charge and make him fly out of the country. Watching the scene, Griggs and two other reporters were grabbed by a Congolese plainclothesman befuddled by bangi (raw marijuana). They were under arrest, he said, as Communist spies. Griggs was ordered to squat on a lawn directly across the street from the Ghanaian embassy. Five feet away a pair of Congolese soldiers lay prone, their rifles cocked and aimed at Griggs...
...morning, as two big crocodiles yawned lazily on the nearby riverbank, Congolese Interior Commissioner José Nussbaumer strode into the Ghanaian embassy and ordered Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck to leave the country that afternoon on a Sabena plane. "I'm not at home to you!" screamed Welbeck, waving a red and white fetish stick in indignation. "Get out and stay out!" Already on his way to the door, Nussbaumer turned and shouted: "I'll be back at 3 o'clock to make sure you take that plane...
...Back in the Congo the vote strengthened the hand of Kasavubu's key ally, Congolese Army Commander Colonel Joseph Mobutu. Six weeks ago Kasavubu had declared Ghana's Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck persona non grata on the ground that he was running around Léopoldville whipping up support for Lumumba, who since his dismissal has rarely dared to venture out of the official mansion where he is still holed up. Instead of leaving, Welbeck kept right on operating from the Ghanaian embassy, where he was guarded by Ghana's U.N. contingent. Last week...
This prospect did not seem to bother the growing number of Lumumba supporters among the U.N.'s neutral-nation membership; a frequent Lumumba visitor last week was Metrol A. Rahman chargé d'affaires of India, reflecting the likelihood that Jawaharlal Nehru has bought the line of Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Touré that the only man to run the Congo is Patrice Lumumba...
Painted Incident. Amidst the break down, U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal, who for 21 months tried unsuccessfully to practice his expert brand of patient, quiet diplomacy, was recalled to Washington for "an extended period of consultation," leaving U.S. affairs in the hands of Chargé Daniel Braddock. Chances are that Bonsai will not return. With Cuba's Washington embassy also headed by a charge, diplomacy between the two nations will become as difficult as commerce...