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Harried Joseph Kasavubu had behind him not only the Western bloc but a new factor in U.N. politics-tribal ties. Cassock-clad Abbé Fulbert Youlou, the President of the former French Congo and, like Kasavubu, an Abako tribesman, rallied nine French Community states, helped beat back the adjournment motion 51 to 36. Result: after a bit more debate, Kasavubu seemed likely to get the coveted seat...
...Back in the Congo the vote strengthened the hand of Kasavubu's key ally, Congolese Army Commander Colonel Joseph Mobutu. Six weeks ago Kasavubu had declared Ghana's Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck persona non grata on the ground that he was running around Léopoldville whipping up support for Lumumba, who since his dismissal has rarely dared to venture out of the official mansion where he is still holed up. Instead of leaving, Welbeck kept right on operating from the Ghanaian embassy, where he was guarded by Ghana's U.N. contingent. Last week...
...this point the new winds from New York began to blow. Under heavy Afro-Asian pressure, the U.N. had been tacitly supporting Lumumba's contention that he is still Premier of the Congo despite his dismissal three months ago by Kasavubu -and had been treating Kasavubu's commands with a gentlemanly disdain. Now, apparently with an eye on the Assembly vote, the U.N. command shifted its stance slightly, ruled that if served with a formal expulsion order, Welbeck would have to get out, since the U.N. "does not intend to interfere in the relations between the government...
...spectators liked the show well enough to refrain from breaking out with the bicycle chains they had brought along in case of dissension. For the U.N. officers in the reviewing stand, it was hard to escape the conclusion that Mobutu came closer than any of the Congo's myriad "leaders" to exercising effective power...
...return of the Belgians is openly encouraged by both Kasavubu and Mobutu, whose recruiters in Brussels are busy lining up as many as possible of the 10,000 Belgian technicians who planned to stay in the Congo before last summer's army mutiny. In New York, top U.N. officials have coldly charged that all this represents a Belgian attempt to regain power in the Congo-an accusation to which Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny hotly replied last week with the implicit threat of a Belgian walkout from the U.N. But many a rank-and-file U.N. worker...