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...defined by U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball: "Freedom of movement for the peace-keeping forces, without the daily, bloody harassment by local Katanga troops, whipped into excited and irresponsible action by rumor, radio and beer." After that, it became the task of hard-working U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion to corral Tshombe, who had fled to the Northern Rhodesia border, and bring him face to face with Adoula. Guaranteed safe passage, Tshombe agreed to fly-in President Eisenhower's old Columbine III-to the meeting in Kitona, a sweltering settlement near the mouth of the Congo River...
Flat Refusal. Gullion, with U.N. Un der Secretary Ralph Bunche and his top U.N. advisers, waited anxiously outside as the two delegations finally took their places around three simple green-topped tables. Now the jesting was over; loud voices could be heard in the corridor out side as Adoula made his demands that secessionist Katanga accept Leopoldville's control without qualification. At 3 p.m. the conferees ordered in beer and sandwiches, kept talking while they ate. At 8:30 p.m. came the call for more food, and this time some whisky. It now appeared that Tshombe was flatly refusing...
...sensing the imminent U.N. offensive, Tshombe put out peace feelers. To President Kennedy went a direct personal plea that "as a free man and as a Christian," he name a conciliator and stop the fighting. Kennedy wired back his prompt agreement and nominated his ambassador in Leopoldville, Edmund Asbury Gullion, to take on the task. But the U.N. pressure would not be relaxed unless Tshombe produced hard evidence of sincerity-in other words, until he left Elisabethville and met with Adoula...
...students, Weil and Peter C. Gold-mark '62, talked to James E. Good-by '51, foreign affairs officer of the United States disarmament Administration, Edmond Gullion, acting deputy director of the Administration, and Elizabeth Goetz, staff assistant of the Senate Subcommittee on Disarmament...
...closing, Gullion emphasized that "Washington is one of the few major educational institutions in the United States operating on a strictly amateur program...