Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against India's aggression in Goa, Adlai Stevenson, recalling the League of Nations' failure to oppose aggression, gloomily warned: "We are witnessing the first act in a drama which could end with [the U.N.'s] death." British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, criticizing the U.N. action against Katanga, warned that Britain might withdraw its financial support. In Washington there were demands for congressional investigation of U.S. policies toward...
Even for the surrealistic Congo, the scene seemed weird as the Congolese Central Government's Premier Cyrille Adoula sat down to negotiate with his archenemy, Katanga's Moise Tshombe. The meeting place itself was strange enough-a hospital waiting room at a United Nations military base. And how did the angry foes start their discussion of the embattled Congo's future? With a fond embrace, knee-slapping guffaws and a day of jokes and laughter...
...moment, over; only the scattered shots of occasional snipers broke the temporary truce. The U.N. was in control, having achieved its "limited objective" as 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...
...York Times Columnist Arthur Krock was frankly sympathetic toward Katanga's President Moise Tshombe. "It has not been demonstrated," said Krock, that Tshombe would cont nue to obstruct a Congolese peace "if and when a reasonable and constructive solution is formally and officially proposed by the U.N." Columnist David Lawrence coldly accused the U.N. of hypocrisy in claiming any legal right to enter the Congo. Said the Wall Street Journal: "It is not at all clear that the U.N. has some moral duty to subdue Tshombe by force. Secretary-General Thant is no Abraham Lincoln trying to hold together...
...since its birth in San Francisco, searched for encouraging words, came up with an editorial noting that some of the current criticism was issuing from the far-right John Birch Society. Post Columnist Max Lerner took the line that since the U.N. had ignited the fire in Katanga, its defenders were stuck: "In this case, there is plenty of room for doubt about the wisdom of the U.N.'s action but no room for hesitancy about backing...