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There were not only questions, but persistent protests. "I have gotten more letters on the Congo than on any other subject, and it appears that North Carolina people feel the only offense the Katangese are guilty of is wanting to be free.'' observes Democratic Senator Sam Ervin. Michigan's Republican Representative Gerald Ford found "fear and apprehension that the Administration is too prone to negotiate and not firm enough in its attitudes." Says California's Republican Representative Al Bell of his constituents: "They feel strongly about aid to the Iron Curtain countries and the planes sent...
...Peace Corps is really doing, as opposed to what its press agents boast and its critics suspect, correspondents headed for the hinterland to see young people on the job. John Blashill sought out Peace Corpsmen upcountry in Chile and Colombia; Lee Griggs interrupted his watch on the uneasy Congo to fly to Tanganyika, and Herman Nickel from Johannesburg turned up with Peace Corpsmen in Nigeria. Still another set of correspondents here in the U.S. went off on a different trail-to see what Congressmen home for Christmas recess are hearing from the voters. They found the U.S. voter worried less...
Kennedy and Macmillan reviewed the current rash of trouble spots-Goa, the Congo, South Viet Nam. Netherlands New Guinea-but they soon settled down to the continuing, fundamental problem of how to meet the Russian threat against Berlin. Both Kennedy and Macmillan admitted that they were perplexed by the motive behind Khrushchev's recent line on West Berlin. The Russian Premier could be toughening his stand either because he does not want negotiations or because he wants to go into negotiations with a hard position to use as bargaining leverage...
...doing now in the name of peace is only adding more fuel to the fire which will eventually consume the U.N. and all it is supposed to represent.'' The New York Daily News suggested that the U.S. stop "bankrolling the U.N. Congo campaign" and leave "the Congo chiefs to settle their differences by means of the exhilarating tribal wars so dear to the hearts of most Congolese." The Tampa Tribune found a "monstrous inconsistency'' in the U.N.'s hands-off policy on Hungary and its hands-on policy in Africa...
...been demonstrated," said Krock, that Tshombe would cont nue to obstruct a Congolese peace "if and when a reasonable and constructive solution is formally and officially proposed by the U.N." Columnist David Lawrence coldly accused the U.N. of hypocrisy in claiming any legal right to enter the Congo. Said the Wall Street Journal: "It is not at all clear that the U.N. has some moral duty to subdue Tshombe by force. Secretary-General Thant is no Abraham Lincoln trying to hold together a great nation." Barron's, a business and financial weekly, stated flatly that "despite Communist dogma...