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...explained to reporters that his seeming about-face was "simply a cover-up to allow Belgium to move additional troops into Katanga," and that "it was prudent to help Belgium with this little story so that Belgium could help us." He also boasted that parts of Kivu and Kasai provinces, including the valuable Tshikapa diamond fields, were ready to join his Katanga state, and he was hopefully eying populous Ruanda-Urundi, the home of the tall and stately Watutsi tribesmen...
...Kindu and the province of Kasai, candidates who believed that they had been defeated nullified the results by setting fire to polling stations and ballot boxes...
Everywhere young King Baudouin went on his flying inspection trip through the major towns of the Congo last week, he heard the insistent cries of nationalist leaders for Congolese independence. But from the dark interior of the Kasai province came ominous notice that, once Belgian control ends, the self-rule everyone seemed to want will bring with it barbarism and strife...
...Ph.B. (Brown Univ.) 1914, A.M. (ibid.) 1914; Eliot Brewster Coulter, Litt.B. (Princeton Univ.) 1914; Floyd Lavern Darrow, A.B. (Allegheny Coll.) 1906; Gideon Ousley Davis, A.B. (Milligan Coll.) 1901, A.M. (Virginia Christian Coll.) 1904; Alexander Dillingham, A.B. (Tufts Coll.) 1907, A.M. (ibid.) 1909; William Noel Hewitt, A.B. 1914; Jiuji George Kasai, Ph.B. (Univ. of Chicago) 1913; Charles Pierce Kendall, A.B. 1902; William Fergus Kernan, A.B. (Tulane Univ.) 1912; Aram Hovhannes Khachadoorian, S.B. 1913; Patrick Francis Kirby, A.B. (Catholic Univ. of America) 1914; Edward Lipkin, A.B. 1914; Chauncey Chester Loomis, A.B. 1915; Hyme Loss, A.B. (Univ. of Minnesota) 1910; Hermon King Murphey...