Word: humanitarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training who has had experience with medical missions, I could not help wincing as I read the gruesome, gory details of the Congo massacre [Dec. 4]. Dr. Paul Carlson's death is immeasurably tragic. But we know this won't discourage others in our profession from making humanitarian missions to people who need our help very badly, like the Africans whom we should pity more than loathe for that barbaric deed...
...when a white man murders innocent Africans, he is only living up to his name as a mercenary and spraying savage Simbas, but when an African kills an intruding Caucasian, his condemnable action only shows that all Africans are atrocious cannibals warring against the civilized Christian and humanitarian white race! As a Nigerian, may I ask if you have forgotten the three civil rights martyrs of white Mississippi in the heart of "civilization"? No wonder the Chinese Communists have a case...
...seems almost unbelievable that anyone, regardless of his nationality or political convictions, could vilify the Americans, British and Belgians for their humanitarian act in trying to rescue as many as possible of the white hostages in the Congo. Yet the Communists and their fellow travelers have the unmitigated gall to call this action "aggression, a warlike act," etc. Thank God America is still able to do all it can to protect its citizens...
Remember Pearl Harbor. That ac tion was completely understood in the West as humanitarian and, if anything, more cautiously carried out than nec essary. The NATO Council formally backed it. In the "nonaligned" and Communist worlds, though, a well-organized propaganda effort made it sound as if the Americans and Belgians, not the savage Simbas, had committed the atrocities of Stanleyville. Whatever Belgium's guilt in the past, whatever the U.S.'s mistakes, it was a dizzying and infuriating perversion of the reality...
...battalion of 600 crack Belgian paratroopers was loaded aboard U.S. C-130 turboprop transports at Belgium's Diest airbase, flown to a little-used U.S. military base on Ascension Island, a British outpost in the South Atlantic only six air hours from Stanleyville. If necessary for humanitarian reasons, the Belgian government later announced, the paratroopers would be dropped on Stanleyville...