Word: kasavubu
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...narrow vote of 62-58, Gizenga's slate of seven candidates swept every office in the Chamber of Representatives; in the Senate, Gizenga supporters won five of the seven elective posts. The Congo's normally inert President Joseph Kasavubu was sufficiently stung by this rebuff to crossly remind the legislators that, as chief of state, it was his responsibility to name a Premier-designate-a strong hint that his first choice would not be Gizenga...
...team might well have been defeated in Parliament had Moise Tshombe allowed his delegation of seven Senators and eight Deputies to attend the session in Leopoldville. But Tshombe, between bouts of bush fever, was more interested in sowing discord at home and abroad. Imprisoned for two months by Kasavubu's central government, he had won release by promising Strongman Joseph Mobutu that he would merge his 11,600 army, officered by 634 Europeans, with that of the central government. Once back in Katanga, Tshombe assured his Cabinet that the agreement was only a "gesture of support for Mobutu...
...help him assess his victory in the parliamentary elections, he had on hand a recently arrived delegation of Russian and Czech advisers. Remembering the botch they made of their effort to take over the Congo with Patrice Lumumba, the Communists this time may urge Gizenga to let President Kasavubu name one of his own men as Premier-on the theory that whoever he picks is bound to fail...
...noted the following as positive contributions of Belgian control in the Congo: (1) unification of the region, saving Central Africa from the ravages of Balkanization. Belgium's colonial policy sought a centralized state, she noted, adding that prior to the liberation Belgium a dfavored Lumumba over Kasavubu on account of the latter's separatist leanings...
Problem of Arithmetic. With this news, the politicians in Leopoldville abruptly lost interest in the democratic processes they had so fervently advocated. Army Commander General Joseph Mobutu openly opposed Parliament's return. So did Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko. Kasavubu himself stalled off the U.N. officials who urged him to go ahead and formally declare the opening of Parliament, with or without the delegates. His reason: without Katanga's votes, control of the legislature just might swing to the Communist-backed regime of that other prominent Congolese secessionist, Stanleyville's Antoine Gizenga, who runs Eastern province...