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...African Unity has never been very friendly to Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe. When his name is mentioned in O.A.U. meetings, it often brings delegates to their feet, shouting "Lackey," "Stooge" or "Neocolonialist." But last week, as the group's foreign ministers met in Nairobi to discuss the Congo question, Tshombe, to his surprise and gratification, found that he had more supporters than attackers...
Moise himself showed up in Nairobi, flashing his quarter-moon smile as he stepped out of his Air Congo DC-6, and immediately went on the attack. He demanded that the O.A.U. censure Egypt, Algeria and the Sudan for supplying arms to the rebels, and the Brazzaville Congo for sending armed bands of invaders into the Congo to aid the rebel cause. Finally, he challenged the rebels themselves to lay down their arms and take their case to the people in the Congo's six-week election period that starts next week. "Let them contest the elections," said Tshombe...
Although Tshombe did not say so, his challenge could well be the rebels' only chance to be anything but jungle terrorists. In the northeastern Congo last week, Tshombe's troops were preparing to move. In Bunia, near the Uganda border, Major Mike Hoare had arrived with 300 fresh mercenaries from South Africa and Rhodesia. An additional 400 Belgian and French mercenaries were poised in the jungle towns to the west of the rebels' center, and Tshombe's own Congolese army was not far behind, presumably waiting only for the end of the O.A.U. conference to strike...
...given generations of its sons as army officers and civil servants to the crown. Casement was raised in County Antrim and eventually joined the foreign service. A handsome bachelor, he spent nearly a third of his life in Africa, and while serving as a British consul in the Belgian Congo exposed the brutalities imposed on the natives by the administrators of Belgium's King Leopold...
Later Casement investigated conditions on the rubber plantations of the Putumayo Valley in Peru and found horrors of mutilation and murder even more shocking than those of the Congo. He was a man of passionate idealism and undoubted courage. Joseph Conrad thought him "a limpid personality" with "a touch of the conquistador in him." After Casement resigned from the consular service in 1913, he was caught up in Ireland's seething demand for home rule, denouncing Britain as the "bitch and harlot of the North...