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...winners this year include Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), novelist John Dos Passos, Herbert Hoover, Gen. Edwin Walker, Prof. Richard M. Weaver, John Wayne, columnist David Lawrence, and editor M. Stanton Evans...
...victory of the UN forces in Elisabethville is a victory for order, no matter what the critics of the UN effort may say. These critics--Senators Dodd and Dirksen, Her Majesty's Government, and the Union Miniere interests in Paris, London and Brussels--had seen Tshombe as the "man of order," and the UN venture as disruptive. The cease-fire declaration has cut their position out from under them...
...Katanga's secessionist regime, it was a trifle embarrassing. Here was its stout U.S. supporter. Connecticut Senator Thomas J. Dodd, in town only three days after Katanga President Moise Tshombe was calling on his people to fight the United Nations troops with "poison arrows, spears, axes and picks." To smooth things over, Tshombe and some of his Cabinet ministers mingled pleasantly with U.N. officers at the U.S. consul's cocktail party honoring Democrat Dodd's arrival. But neither Tshombe nor anyone else could control the erratic, excitable Katanga soldiers who had been listening to the President...
...elite corps." on guard at a Katangese general's residence in another part of town, noticed dozens of "suspicious" foreigners arriving at a house a few doors away. This was the home of Mobil Oil's representative, who was giving a dinner party for Dodd, U.N. and diplomatic guests, and the best of Elisabethville society. When a sedan with U.N. license plates drove up, the soldiers were sure some kind of plot was being hatched. Quickly they surrounded the car, shouting and gesticulating wildly at the two startled occupants. Australian-born George Ivan Smith, acting U.N. chief...
Heads Down. It was at this point that a car arrived with U.S. Consul Lewis Hoffacker and Dodd. Sizing up the situation, Hoffacker jumped out, grabbed Smith and hauled him semiconscious into the sedan. "Lie on the floor and keep your heads down!" Hoffacker yelled to Smith and Dodd; then he gunned his motor and drove away at full speed before the confused soldiers could stop...