Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memories of Korea. Dag talked with U.S. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge in his suite. The U.S. was sympathetic to the Belgian position but not ready to side with it, sobered by the risk that Congo might become another Korea. The U.S. thought that the Belgians should get out of Katanga fast. That viewpoint was forcefully expressed to the British, French, Italians and South Americans...
...same morning Hammarskjold also had a long conversation with Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov, who was strongly urging armed entry into Katanga, hoping thereby to drive a wedge into the NATO powers, who would have to line up on different sides of such a resolution. Ham marskjold gambled that the Russians would extract every possible drop of propaganda advantage from their bluster but that they would not oppose the African states in a showdown-and perhaps he got a wink that told...
...Congo for its impatience, and strongly criticized governments-unnamed-which threatened to take matters into their own hands by "breaking away from the U.N. force and pursuing a unilateral policy." When Russia's Kuznetsov heavily denounced Hammarskjold for not ordering the U.N. to fight its way into Katanga, Hammarskjold answered: "I do not personally believe we help the Congolese by actions in which Africans kill Africans or Congolese kill Congolese...
...Europeans in Africa raped, robbed and murdered by what they regard as ungrateful subjects, sneered at Hammarskjold as the "chief of an international supergovernment exclusively at the service of the Afro-Asian countries that have sworn to humiliate and humble Westerners.'' One wing of French opinion regards Katanga as a dangerous precedent. What if Algeria got its independence, and the European colons set up a secessionist state along the Algerian coast? Would U.N. troops fly in to guarantee all Algeria to the Moslems...
Hammarskjold's reply is that the U.N. does not meddle in internal affairs, even if it runs them "on request." Its only mission in Katanga, he says, is to replace Belgian troops with U.N. troops. When the Belgians are gone, if Katanga still wishes to secede, Hammarskjold's U.N. troops will not interfere. Should Lumumba and his pulled-together Force Publique try to reconquer a secessionist Katanga, the U.N. force under its present directive from the Security Council would have to stand aside and let them fight it out. Hammarskjold has scrupulously refrained from backing Lumumba...