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Logical Question. Flushed with his Kasai victory, Lumumba once more rounded on his favorite whipping boy: the U.N. Early in the week, he and his government had warmly expressed gratification at Dag Hammarskjold's message that the Belgians had promised to remove all their combat troops from the Congo "within, at the most, eight days." Now, in an about-face so sudden that no one knew whether it was a decision of the moment or one he might abide by for 48 hours, Lumumba demanded that U.N. troops leave the Congo as soon as the last Belgian...
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...
...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, "a country known to have special affinities with the Belgian royal family." Hammarskjold coldly replied that he had decided to return to New York to call another Security Council meeting. Lumumba there upon demanded...
...cheers Hammarskjold's Congo policy has won, there were voices of dissent. In London, Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express complained that U.N. intervention in the Congo "is an act of brigandage and oppression cloaked by sanctimoniousness . . . Every agitator in Africa looks with hope to Dag Hammarskjold." In Paris the right-wing L'Aurore asked: "Do we understand that in the Congo the first objective is to evict the Belgians and the second to re-establish on his cardboard throne this astonishing Lumumba?'' Paris-Jour, echoing the feeling of those Western Europeans...
...Elisabethville airfield, where they first put down. Belgian commanders in Katanga agreed to start pulling their 7,000 troops back to a single base as more U.N. forces flew in this week. The Congo may remain just one jump ahead of chaos for some time to come, but Dag Hammarskjold had established there a principle that may help in other African troubles to come. His was one more brave try in the 20th century's hopeful, if often frustrated, effort to substitute for the bloody consequences of untrammeled nationalism the security of an international order...