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...Foreign Secretary has made it noisily clear that he thinks the UN should leave the settling of small power aggression and crises in general to the great powers of the world. Plainly, he favors a mediating, conciliatory UN executive, and doesn't like the increasingly activist role that the Congo crisis has forced upon it. And, he has said over and over again, the reckless, sloganeering anti-colonialism of the world body's newer members leads them to adopt a deplorable double standard of international morality...
Inside Pressure. The Loi Fondamentale is the provisional constitution left behind by the Belgians when they pulled out of the Congo in June 1960. Because the draft looked toward a federal Congo with a strong central government, Tshombe was against it from the start; at his meeting with Adoula, he reluctantly agreed to accept its provisions, but now (on the ground that his own provincial Parliament in Katanga had still to ratify his agreement) he insisted that the delegates would try again to get the provisional constitution changed. Said he: "We still insist on a confederation...
...Minister of the Interior, refused any compromise whatever with the central Congolese regime. On the other side were Katanga's Baluba tribesmen-many of them displaced by the war and living precariously in U.N. refugee camps-whose leaders hate Tshombe and demand not secession but union with the Congo; the Baluba represent half of all Katanga's people...
...resolution passed by the General Assembly in December 1960, which stated that "inadequacy of political, economic, social or educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for delaying independence," showed a "total lack of responsibility." After all, he said, "everyone has seen the chaos in the Congo...
...positive gains-the defeat of the Soviet "troika" scheme by the "common sense of the Assembly," and the "quiet, unostentatious but valuable work" in medicine, farming, education and technical assistance. Home even conceded that, while Britain opposed the U.N.'s violent methods in the Congo, U.N. action had "kept the cold war out of that country...