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...Position. Throughout the uproar, and despite grave misgiving (see PRESS), the U.S. Government held to its policy: Tshombe must end his secession and recognize the central government for the greater good of the Congo as a whole, not to mention the peace of Africa...
...self-determination" argument, the U.S. replied that Tshombe does not speak for all of Katanga, and that, at any rate, the principle of self-determination cannot be indiscriminately invoked by any territory or province. Neither the Congo nor Katanga is a nation in anything like the modern sense, but, as the U.S. sees it, the Congo as a whole, with its continuous 75-year history as a Belgian colony, has a more sensible claim to nationhood than one of its parts...
...anti-Communist argument, the Washington reply went as follows: the central Congo government of Premier Cyrille Adoula, already shaky enough, cannot survive much longer if Tshombe's defiance of its authority continues indefinitely. And without Adoula, whom Washington regards as the Congo's ablest, most reliable leader, the way would be wide open to the Reds. In that event, Tshombe's anti-Communism would be of little help, even if his opposition to the Reds were as solid as advertised (which the U.S. doubts...
History of Failure. U.N.-and American-involvement in the Congo was all but inevitable the moment, in 1959, when Belgium hastily and irresponsibly agreed to withdraw from a colony it had never prepared for independence. Into the resultant vacuum were swept a bewildering array of 65 political parties. One dominant-but erratic and unstable-figure emerged: Patrice Lumumba. Head of a shaky coalition regime that took control of the Congo, after free elections, in June 1960, Lumumba favored strong central government. This was anathema to Tshombe. who had no intention of sharing the wealth of his mineral-rich province with...
...negotiate a satisfactory settlement with Adoula. This did not 'mean that the U.S. wanted to destroy Moise Tshombe. He has a following and a talent for leadership too rare to dispense with. But to survive, insisted the U.S., he would have to use that talent for the Congo, not just Katanga. By week's end the U.N. was in the center of Elisabethville, and Tshombe reportedly had fled to the Rhodesian border...