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This week, the Congo may even have a functioning government. After a whirlwind trip from Washington to Canada, where he got Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's promise of a 100-man-army communications network in the Congo, Lumumba buzzed back to New York. On his schedule were nothing but a trip to Macy's, the purchase of some English language records and a flight for home, presumably to try to solve some of the problems he has just been talking about up till...
...Southern Rhodesia need be afraid that what has happened in the Congo could possibly happen here." So said Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead at the height of the Congo crisis. Whitehead was no prophet...
...United Federal Party holds only a shaky two-vote majority in the Southern Rhodesian Parliament over the extreme rightist Dominion Party,' which has been urging that Southern Rhodesia break up the Central African Federation by abandoning its ties to Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. With the chaos in the Congo seemingly confirming the worst fears of white settlers in both major parties, Whitehead knew that any softness toward the Africans could topple his government. He apparently decided to get tough...
...former French West African colonies of Senegal and Sudan, sought and were granted their complete sovereignty. In the next two weeks, eight other Community members will become independent nations: Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and Niger, which are loosely grouped into the Council of the Entente; Chad, French Congo, and the Central African Republic, which make up the Union of Central African Republics; and Gabon. Last week the last member of the Community, the desolate Islamic Republic of Mauritania, formally obtained from De Gaulle an agreement granting full independence in November...
...twelve of the new nations eased into independence without the convulsive birth spasms that racked the infant Belgian Congo Republic. Premier Debre promised to sponsor them in their candidacy for the United Nations. Echoing the leaders of the other states, all of whom will remain "associated" with the Community to reap its economic and political advantages, Gabon's Premier Leon M'Ba said: "You can count on Gabon's remaining with France for better or worse...