Word: congos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Britain and France, never particularly enthusiastic about the U.N.'s Congo policy in the first place, clamored for a cease-fire on any terms. They also questioned on what authority the attack on Elisabethville had been ordered. In response, O'Brien indicated that Secretary-General Hammarskjold had authorized the attack after Tshombe had ignored a U.N. ultimatum demanding that he oust all foreign mercenaries from Katanga. But it was impossible to verify what Hammarskjold actually had or hadn't authorized since a plane carrying him to a conference with Tshombe had crashed in the meantime, and the Secretary-General...
...over policy differences with the Ghanaian government. Now he holds the Albert Schweitzer chair in Humanities at N.Y.U., and lives in Washington Square Village, a multicolored concoction which towers over New York's Third Street. Now, also, he can speak freely about the U.N.'s adventure in the Congo, about the aims and means of the Ghanaian government, and about anything that should happen to come...
...qualifications, O'Brien merely acknowledged that he "knew something of the Congo at an instructive period in its history." Then he proceeded to analyze American policy toward the Congo, which he divided into three phases. The first, he said, was one of support for the interests of Belgium and France, and remained basically unaltered until Patrice Lumumba's death...
...Brien then dealt in passing with the crisis provoked by Moscow's unwillingness to pay for U.N. operations in the Congo. He recalled that "the bill sent to the Soviet Union included the little item: 'eight million francs for eviction of Soviet embassy.' Frankly, I can understand why they wouldn...
...After Lumumba's death," he continued, "Kennedy turned to support U.N. efforts against Tshombe." But if O'Brien saw Kennedy's Congo policy as at least belatedly sound, he bestowed no such praise on the Johnson administration's policy, which he described as one of "keeping the Communists out and finding out why afterwards...