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Playing to the legislators' pride, he cried. "Don't you think Kasavubu has insulted you by trying to set up a new government without consulting you?" He opened the pork barrel, suggesting that there were 60 ambassadorial jobs to be filled in Congolese diplomatic posts abroad. "For these tasks of prestige and savoir faire, I must depend on you, my dear colleagues." smiled Lumumba...
Snow Job. It was a masterful performance of its kind, and when the Speaker proposed a motion that both Kasavubu's dismissal of Lumumba and Lumumba's dismissal of Kasavubu be wiped off the books and forgotten, the Assembly voted its approval by a whopping 60 to 19. Next day in the Senate, with neither Kasavubu nor even Senate President Ileo himself daring to show up for the debate. Lumumba repeated his snow job with some added embellishments. He waved sheaves of money and held up a transistor radio, claiming they had been taken from a "Belgian...
Aglow with success, the erratic Premier saved his shocker until the end. "The United Nations has plotted with Kasavubu to overthrow my government and failed," he shouted. "We must demand the immediate withdrawal of all United Nations troops from the Congo...
Seizing on the pretext that the falling out between Kasavubu and Lumumba might lead to civil rioting that the U.N. would have to deal with, Hammarskjold's officers ordered the main airports closed to all but U.N. planes, and Hammarskjold reported to the Security Council that "certain assistance from outside" was keeping the threat of civil war alive and gravely handicapping the U.N.'s task. In Washington, President Eisenhower considered the Russian intervention so serious that he had a special statement ready at his press conference warning the Soviets "to desist from unilateral activities." Ike charitably admitted there...
...arsenals, and a cease-fire was arranged in the Katanga campaign. Lumumba insisted it was all a mistake, but the fact remained that the Premier, already effectively deprived of his airports and his radio stations, was now in danger of becoming a Premier without an army. Exultant, President Joseph Kasavubu fired off a cable to U.N. headquarters in Manhattan: "Have honor to inform you of composition of new government of Republic of Congo" and ca'mly began forming his Cabinet. But Patrice Lumumba was sitting tight in the Premiers office. For the United Nations, all this was a venture...