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...Congo and Arabia besides...
...Takoradi in the same week, suggesting that Nkrumah is building up supplies to expand his gunrunning activities all along Africa's west coast, for Nkrumah's own army already has all the arms it can use (supplied largely by Britain). One likely intended recipient is the Congo's Antoine Gizenga, the Red-lining rebel in Stanleyville, who as Lumumba's Vice Premier is recognized by the Communist bloc (and Ghana) as the Congo's legitimate ruler. Only last month, Nkrumah talked publicly of restoring the "balance of armaments" in the Congo if the Belgians continued...
...indignities mount. Mukasa's long-sought aunt, the twin sister of his dead mother, proves to be a filthy, half-mad old woman who has been driven from the tribe as a witch. To save her wretched life, McNair risks taking an illegal short cut through the Belgian Congo. They are swiftly arrested. McNair, as a white man, is quartered with the Belgian officers, but Mukasa gets slapped around by the hard-eyed police and thrown into a jail crammed with demented African cultists. Engineering an escape, McNair brings them all to a greater doom: abandonment for the half...
...Bunche also said that the Congo crisis "has brought the most serious threat to the United Nations in its 15 years of existence." He expects trouble to continue wherever several races must exist together in one country. "Can racial strife, even an all-out racial war, be averted? ... We have time, but not much...
...same time, Bunche insisted that the recent attacks on the U.N. were not caused by the Congo debacle. Last July's events did influence their timing by providing a convenient springboard, he said, but the attacks were part of a calculated effort to undermine the nonpartisan nature of the organization. Bunche obviously had in mind Khrushchev's shoe-pounding in the General Assembly last fall...