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...cloudy, hot morning last week in Leopoldville, capital of the vast Belgian Congo (about four times the size of Texas and 77 times larger than Belgium itself), long lines of natives stood quietly in the dusty streets. Across town, amid the mangoes, palms and cassia trees of the European quarter, far fewer white citizens were similarly lined up. Belgian gradualism was making another cautious move forward, permitting the first elections-for either whites or blacks-to be held in Belgium's fabulously rich (cobalt, uranium, copper, gold) and only colony...
...colonial administrators walk a tightrope over the twin volcanoes of white repression and black extremism. They have given fewer civil rights to their Africans than either the British in Nigeria (due for Dominion status in 1960) to the northwest or the French in Equatorial Africa across the Congo River. They have never had the racial clashes or race hate that flame in apartheid-cursed South Africa or in British-ruled Kenya. In fact, the only rioting in recent years occurred last summer after a badly refereed soccer game between white and black teams in Leopoldville's big King Baudouin...
AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION will be speeded by $3 billion Inga hydroelectric project, the world's biggest, to start building soon near mouth of the Congo River. Complex of dams and power stations will generate 200 billion kw-h a year-about twelve times the output of Grand Coulee Dam -for power-short central Africa. Belgium figures project will attract $15 billion to $20 billion in Congo industrial investment...
Collector of Injustice. He was a handsome, romantic, cranky figure, that most irritating kind of idealist, a collector of other people's injustices. A poor orphan boy from Ballymena in County Antrim, he joined the British consular service, was stationed in Africa. The Belgian Congo, then being run as a private slave factory by Belgium's King Leopold II, captured his horrified attention. It was a time before Europe knew itself capable of Belsen, and Europe was shocked by Casement's voluminous, angry reports (published in 1904) on torture, floggings and forced labor. Later, he made similar...
...across the Nile at Cairo. The products of Bayer's giant Leverkusen works now fill the drugstores of Southeast Asia. Three years after the French gave up Indo-China, half the cars in Laos are German-made; in an auto race in the Belgian Congo, Volkswagen took the first eight places. The heavy-machinery firm DEMAG has built the first steel works in Egypt, Korea, Burma and the Philippines, and others for France, South Africa, Brazil and India. DEMAG-built furnaces now turn out some 37 million tons of steel a year round the world...