Word: congos
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...Congo Atrocities
...surgeon in training who has had experience with medical missions, I could not help wincing as I read the gruesome, gory details of the Congo massacre [Dec. 4]. Dr. Paul Carlson's death is immeasurably tragic. But we know this won't discourage others in our profession from making humanitarian missions to people who need our help very badly, like the Africans whom we should pity more than loathe for that barbaric deed...
...seems almost unbelievable that anyone, regardless of his nationality or political convictions, could vilify the Americans, British and Belgians for their humanitarian act in trying to rescue as many as possible of the white hostages in the Congo. Yet the Communists and their fellow travelers have the unmitigated gall to call this action "aggression, a warlike act," etc. Thank God America is still able to do all it can to protect its citizens...
...Ever since the first reports began trickling in of the butchery in the Congo, I have been running around to my fellow whites calling on them to rejoice. "By golly," I cry, "those goddam nuns, missionaries and doctors are really getting what they deserve. What are they but a bunch of lousy outside agitators, not even of the same race, going in there trying to change the Congolese way of life? Don't they have enough sin and disease back where they came from? Why don't they clean up the mess at home before bothering other people...
...through about two-thirds of the spiel, until he gets the point. Slack-jawed indignation ensues. I am afraid, though, that you have ruined my sardonic joke. I got half way through your cover story before nausea overtook me, and it occurred to me that blind barbarism-in the Congo, in Mississippi-is the one citadel that will not tumble before mockery...