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...campaign a sense of urgency is the timetable of independence. Within a year Kenya may be on its own, and if the L.F.A.'s black terrorists make good their pledge to seize the white settlers' land, the country could find itself in the same shape the Congo was in when independence came...
With Menon disposed of, India settled down to deal with the Chinese. New Delhi sent word to the U.N. that it wanted to withdraw "as soon as possible" its 5,700 troops in the Congo. Police rounded up scores of Communists suspected of holding "pro-Chinese" feelings, even though India's Communist Party had belatedly come out against "Chinese aggression...
...year's neatest budgetary trick was pulled off last week by Katanga's Prestidigitator Moise Tshombe, who badly wanted $40 million in Katangan currency to pay off old Congo war debts and keep his army in ammo. He merely closed all of Katanga's banks for the week, skimmed 5% off the top of all bank accounts, and then, to make sure no one was left out, gave landlords the choice of paying 50% of all rent revenue for the past six months or 5% of the total value of their property...
Katanga's Moise Tshombe is not the only secessionist to break off a piece of the Congo and call it his own. He is merely the richest. In the backcountry, other little fiefs have declared themselves inde pendent in defiance of central government authority. Zaniest of all is ludicrous little Mining State in South Kasai...
...only Katanga would prove as easy to crack," sighed one Western diplomat in the Congo last week. But Moise Tshombe was holding out as stubbornly as ever for his region's autonomy, and for the lion's share of the vast concession fees of Ka tanga's Belgian and British-controlled copper and cobalt riches. As U.S. Under Secretary of State George McGhee conferred patiently in Elisabethville, hoping to convince Tshombe that Katanga must return to the Congo fold, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant published a U.N. report from Leopoldville which charged that Tshombe was beefing...