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...West, the situation had its divisive ironies. At Washington's orders, a caravan of giant U.S. Air Force Globe-masters was busy hauling Swedish, Indian and Ethiopian soldiers to the U.N. garrison at Elisabethville, there to fight Belgians, Frenchmen and Britons serving with the Katanga forces. The NATO allies, sorely split over the U.N. intervention, discussed a solution for hours at their Paris conference. They were really discussing the fate of one man-Katanga's Moise Tshombe, the crafty, flamboyant black leader who had taken his copperrich province out of the Congo and called it a nation...
...chance that the Katanga chaos could spread elsewhere in Africa, a continent where political tempers are close to flash point at the best of times. London was especially worried, since Katanga shares a 1,100-mile border with Britain's tense Northern Rhodesia protectorate. Moreover, some Britons and Frenchmen also have heavy financial interests in Katanga itself,* mostly through part ownership of the rich Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, one of the world's biggest copper and cobalt producers, which (according to a report by U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant) has been supplying arms...
...prove his own point, Andy's anniversary speech, at a midnight cake-cutting upstairs, was delivered in French-for nearly all of the 500 celebrators who gathered round him were Frenchmen. Downstairs, in the room where Gershwin wrote, 30-odd Americans sat around drinking and talking politics...
...people who have no history," the vast majority of Frenchmen, continued to support De Gaulle-and were thus making history. The fact became evident again in the latest of De Gaulle's cross-country tours. On Corsica the fierce, gun-happy islanders (strict security forbade the sky-aimed salvos with which they usually welcome visitors) quickly warmed to the President when he eloquently referred to Corsica's favorite son, Napoleon. In the South of France, coatless despite a severe head cold, De Gaulle drew cheers everywhere except in Marseille, where Red dock workers and right-wing ultras heckled...
...Gaulle to come to power as the one man with sufficient stature to end it. Last week peace seemed closer than ever, as the F.L.N. announced its willingness to settle on the basis of an Algerian plebiscite, agreed to a "transition" period to accustom Moslems to the idea that "Frenchmen and French interests will remain in Algeria...