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...Congo's Thomas Kanza, representative of the Gizenga government at the United Nations and the only man to survive Kasavubu's purge of the Lumumba cabinet, will speak in the Quincy House dining room at 8 p.m. tonight...
...Sept. 28 Kanza returned to the Congo and refused to participate in Mobutu's College of Commissioners, the country's interim government...
Kanza's topic will be "The Tragic Comedy of the Congo--What Next...
Subsequently ignoring the fact that Lumumba was the democratically designated spokesman for as significant a bloc of Congolese opinion as Tshombe, Mobutu, or Kasavubu, the West set out to force a one-sided stability in the Congo. As usual, the sides were chosen in the name of impartiality and the polarization of forces was peddled off as a means of creating order and stability...
Continuing the pattern, the Associated Press reported fears that "illiterate millions in the Congo may regard Lumumba as a martyr." One wonders where Western apprehensions were hidden during the years in which Belgian rule virtually forbade education in the Congo...