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...present, the U.N., with the help of the U.S., is busily engaged in destroying the only base on which the ex-Belgian Congo can thrive, and precipitating Katanga into the same chaos as the rest of the country. The U.S. seems to be like a ship driven by the winds of the opinion of the anti-Western part of the world. It is becoming more and more evident that Europe and its friends will have to save themselves from their enemies in spite of the "help...
Thus, it was as necessary last week that President John Kennedy should caution India's Prime Minister Nehru against taking military action against the insignificant Portuguese enclave of Goa as that he should intervene personally in an attempt to mediate in the explosive Congo (see THE WORLD). And it seemed important that he should go ahead with a largely ceremonial visit to Latin America, even though he had been warned that it might be dangerous. For ceremony is the visible side of policy, and the U.S. would have suffered a serious setback if the President had reneged...
...CONGO (See Cover) The tom-tom must beat this night to call our warriors to the fight. Everywhere in the bush the army of warriors must answer this ancestral call...
...headlines, echoing queer names and remote places, was becoming all too insistent. It told of the United Nations' painful effort to pacify a province called Katanga and unify an emerging nation called Congo. To many it seemed a strange and distant venue to win so much of the world's attention. In a sense, it was; the Congo crisis hardly compared with the peril of war in tense Berlin, nor was it as immediate a danger to peace as the furtive Communist advances in the paddyfields of Southeast Asia. In the U.S. and elsewhere, many would have liked...
...these days political shock waves travel too fast and too far for that: the ugly little Congo squabble was not to be ignored. As Africa's colonial empires crumble, a wobbly league of immature new countries is taking their place. In their midst, like it or not, the U.S. must try to prevent chaos...