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With a rare angry glint in his pale blue eyes, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold last week went on the offensive against Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba. And well he might. The Congo's army was acting on its irresponsible own, the Congo's economy was stagnating, and its capital city chaotic and littered with trash. In such an hour, when he needed all the help he could get and his country needed all the stability it could muster, Lumumba jumped up and down in an insensate feud with the U.N. Compared with Lumumba, Hammarskjold confided to associates...
Chain of Letters. Lumumba seemed neither in effective control of his country nor of himself. He sent an irate note to Hammarskjold accusing him of ignoring the Congo's central government, of "acting in connivance" with the secessionist regime in the Congo's Katanga province, and of deliberately misinterpreting his instructions from the U.N. Security Council. Then, blithely ignoring the fact that the U.N. had already dispatched 2,000 African (Moroccan, Mali and Ethiopian) troops to Katanga. Lumumba accused Dag of sending in only units from Ireland (there were no Irish troops in Katanga) and from Sweden...
...office clerk with a limited education. Lumumba was sending off some fairly polished and legalistic notes. Their phraseology led foreign diplomats to wonder who was writing his stuff. The answer seemed to be that Lu mumba is now surrounded by a growing coterie of Red-lining advisers. Besides the Congo's latter-day Madame de Stael. handsome Leftist Andree Blouin, who has volunteered her way into the most intimate Congo affairs (TIME, Aug. 15). Lumumba relies heavily on a Frenchman of Polish extraction named Serge Michel. Michel, until recently an aide to Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas...
...Give Up." It was not safe to be a peaceable U.N. employee in the Congo last week. Two U.N. officers were set upon and robbed by Lumumba's own office guards when they arrived to deliver a note from U.N. Special Representative Ralph Bunche. Combing the town for "Belgians in disguise," Congolese police invaded Leopoldville's hotels in the early hours of the morning, turned out white occupants for inspection...
...sight. A group of Norwegian soldiers fresh in from Europe were held as "Belgian paratroopers," and a Pakistan colonel was threatened with bayonets. "I give up!" shouted a U.N. brigadier from Ghana, throwing his garrison cap into the air in disgust after an argument with the Congo's comic-opera army commander. "This has become a complete farce...