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...time might find himself not much more welcome. He would cry peace and disarmament, but has shown that he has about as much interest in reducing tensions and promoting world order as the Three Stooges. Dag Hammarskjold and Russia's fellow Security Council members, bent on quieting the Congo turmoil, had watched the Soviets stir the fires of chaos, make a grandstand play to Africans by labeling the U.N. a partner to a colonial conspiracy, and egg on the wild Lumumba (see FOREIGN NEWS...
First Victim. Lumumba was also having trouble keeping order inside his own government. He slapped one of the Congo's few educated politicians, Puna Party President Jean Balikango, into jail on charges of making secessionist speeches. But even if by such tactics Lumumba succeeded in making himself a dictator in Leopoldville, he still had a long way to go before he could call himself master of his nation. From the lower Congo came word of mutinies among army units discontented with weeks of no pay or supplies. In the boondocks town of Moerbeke, an armed civilian mob set upon...
...signing of a $45 million contract for Soviet development of their nation's mineral and industrial resources. In the Hotel de France in Guinea's steaming capital of Conakry, the lingua franca of the lobby has shifted from French to Russian. At Leopoldville and Stanleyville in tne Congo, Soviet Ilyushin transports buzz familiarly in and out, debouching badly needed food -plus intelligence officers, tactical advisers for premier Patrice Lumumba's army and, according to Western intelligence reports, arms and ammunition...
...rulers created in Moscow a mammoth African research center headed by the Soviet Union's top African expert, Professor Ivan Potekhin. Top Soviet diplomatic talent was rushed to Africa, including Middle East Ace Daniel Solod, who is Moscow's Ambassador to Guinea, and hard-driving Ambassador to Congo Mikhail Yakovlev, whose clever footwork has gained him seemingly unrestricted access to Patrice Lumumba's office. Soviet diplomats have cleared the way for such projects as the African student scheme under which, last week, arrangements were made to send 150 Congolese youths to Moscow's new Friendship University...
...Prague, Budapest, Leipzig and East Berlin. Simultaneously, East German trade and cultural missions have been estab- lished in Ghana, Guinea, the Sudan, Nigeria, and in the Mali federation and Cameroon, where Communist parties and Red guerrillas (who had made earlier Moscow pilgrimages) already existed. Within two days after the Congo became independent last June, five East German "trade union" adVisers were setting up shop in Leopoldville...