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...came quickly. Across the world-and even in the sleek chambers of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan-Communist-inspired squads broke into rioting (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Soviet Union threatened military intervention in behalf of the Communist-lining Congolese Pretender Antoine Gizenga. It reopened its campaign to destroy the authority of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and. in effect, to destroy the U.N. as a force for law and as a workable instrument of orderly neutrality...
Kennedy was quite willing to risk a showdown in calling the Soviet bluff. For unlike the battlegrounds of Korea and Laos-where the problem of supply is simple for the Communists but difficult for the U.S.-the Congo is a Russian strategic nightmare. Gizenga's headquarters in Stanleyville is 3,400 miles from the Russian border, 2,400 miles from supply depots in Sékou Touré's friendly Guinea...
...Congo. In a savage 1,500-word statement, they attacked Hammarskjold as an "imperialist lackey" and an "accomplice and organizer of murder," and demanded that he be thrown out of office. Simultaneously, Moscow announced immediate recognition of the Communist-backed Stanleyville rebel regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, onetime Vice Premier in the Lumumba government, and promised "all possible assistance and support" for it. To an anxious world, it seemed a clear threat that Russia was ready to intervene physically in the Congo cockpit...
Thomas Kanza, the representative at the U.N. of Antoine Gizenga (Lumumba's chief deputy and now the leader of his party) "paid homage" to the broad popular support that Lumumba commanded...
...Congo's Thomas Kanza, representative of the Gizenga government at the United Nations and the only man to survive Kasavubu's purge of the Lumumba cabinet, will speak in the Quincy House dining room at 8 p.m. tonight...