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...refreshing at last to read a relatively unbiased CRIMSON account of SDS activities. I refer to the April 26th report of the address given by G. Menen Williams on America's Congo policy. Until this time, editorial opinion has not been limited to the editorial page, as it should be. The CRIMSON'S complete espousal of the SDS-May 2 line has degenerated into a starkly outlined and starkly unrealistic "good guys vs. bad guys" cliche--the very same sin ascribed by it to those who disagree. It should be evident that in such a situation no side...
...Western reader who wants to understand the emotional force behind that revolution. But the readers of the work who really matter are the would-be leaders in the jungles and mountains of Africa and Asia. Its ideas have already found bloody reality in the Simba massacres in the Congo, in the shouts of Indonesia's Sukarno against "neocolonialism," and in Red China's rallying call to the Afro-Asian nations to turn their backs on the West...
There he is, David Halberstam '55, former Crimed, charging through the jungles of the Congo, relaxing in the coolest bars in Saigon, winging from Elizabethville to Nairobi to Geneva to Saigon. Always on the firing line. Always in the known-ahead of ambassadors, general, CIA agents. Always on the front page of the New York Times...
...carefully-prepared, hour-long Williams maintained that the U.S. never had any desire to control the or any other part of Africa," and that direct U.S. investment in the Congo is less than one per cent of the total foreign investment there...
Williams said the U.S., "neither condones nor approves" of the use of white mercenaries in the Congo, but he asserted that the Congolese government "has every legal right" to employ them. He said U.S. military personnel in the Congo consist of some 200 men, mostly air transport crews, and that "we have absolutely no intention to engage U.S. forces in combat operations...