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...Thant first joined his country's U.N. delegation in 1952, was appointed permanent delegate in 1957. Among other key U.N. posts, U Thant this year served concurrently as chairman of the Development Fund, the Congo Conciliation Commission and the Afro-Asian Standing Committee on Algeria. Rejecting Krishna Menon-style neutralism, he has shown moral fiber and tact in his major assignments. He called on the U.N. to maintain law and order in the Congo, worked patiently and discreetly to end the Algerian conflict, backed the U.N. resolution condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising (though, characteristically...
...organization and in function from our own trade unions, Lodge emphasized their great determining influence in political affairs, and especially their association with movements for national independence. In these countries politicians often ride to power on the strength of their leadership of labor movements, such as in Brazil, Congo, and in Kenya...
...troika, even in the cases of such left-leaning states as Ghana, Guinea and Mali, which sent "observers" to the Communist Party Congress. Nigeria, the most stable former colony south of the Sahara, and the Brazzaville group of twelve former French territories are especially suspicious of Red intentions. The Congo, once Moscow's sharpest spearhead in Africa, may be inching toward stability even though Communist embassies are reappearing in Leopoldville...
...Supplication. In the past, many black nationalists have disliked Luthuli almost as much as the white supremacists. Far too restrained for black extremists (even Verwoerd once acknowledged his moderation), Luthuli has deplored the Congo's premature independence, has acknowledged that "Africans cannot manage without the whites. We have accepted Western civilization; we like it and are absorbing it as fast as we can despite the efforts of the government to cut us off from it. White South Africa's divine task is to propagate this civilization, not to hoard it from...
...increased importance of the General Assembly, where this bloc can assert its full strength, Rusher said, has resulted in the "tragic and insane" spectacle of United States-financed troops opposing the pro-Western regime of Molshe Tshombe in Katanga Province in the Congo...