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Death in the Congo...
...this commotion and sympathy about Lumumba? Naturally the Kremlin is upset; this was their stooge, and the foot in the door to communizing the Congo...
Wearing the Colors. The Administration scored a considerable diplomatic victory over the U.S.S.R. in the United Nations when a big majority-including three Afro-Asian nations-voted to back up Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in the Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS). This was a heavy blow to loudly proclaimed Soviet intentions to get Hammarskjold and the United Nations out of the Congo. There was no crowing over the victory. (Both the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled their press conferences.) Instead. Kennedy called in Secretary Rusk and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson. He publicly sent Thompson...
...spokesman last night blamed "Imperialists from Belgium and the United States" for Lumumba's death. The picketers, he said, will try to gain supporters for the anti-imperialist and pro-Lumumba movement in the Congo...
According to the YSA, the United States has dictated recent United Nations policy in the Congo. "Lumumba made a mistake in calling for the U.N. in the first place," the spokesman said, "and the Congo government should be returned to Lumumba's successors...