Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier at the U.N. and again in Washington, Lumumba hammered away at a single theme: the U.N. must get the Belgian troops out of the entire Congo, including secession-minded Katanga province. "After the Belgian troops leave, peace will be restored in five minutes," he told a U.N. press conference. "If the Belgian troops left tomorrow, that would be fine. But if they left today, that would be even better." Lumumba backed away smoothly from his big development contract with U.S. Promoter Louis Edgar Detwiler: "Only an agreement in principle." (Privately he admitted the contract was "a terrible mistake...
...flew to Brussels. Hammarskjold's session with Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Cabinet was heated. The Belgians argued that they would be complying with the U.N. resolution if they withdrew their troops to their two main bases in the Congo, pleaded that the U.N. should stay out of Katanga. Dag was unimpressed. As is his way, he pointed out that the U.N. resolution asked the Belgians to leave "the territory of the Congo," and that certainly included both the bases and Katanga...
...neutral Brazzaville, across the river in French Congo. Crossing the river in a launch, he soon was confronting the Congolese Cabinet. Prodded by sharp telegrams from Lumumba, the Cabinet insistently demanded that Hammarskjold use force if necessary to clear the Belgian troops out of Katanga...
...Pierre Wigny spoke for his nation last week when he cried in Parliament: "Do we really have to prove with legal phrasing and quoting of legal textbooks the Tightness of our intervention, when the arrivals of our refugees prove beyond doubt its necessity?" Only bright spot for Belgium was Katanga province, whose premier, Moise Tshombe, had declared his province independent and called for Belgian intervention against the mutinous Force Publique. There was some momentary confusion when Tshombe, after announcing the independence of Katanga, seemed to reverse himself a day or two later. Disarmingly, he explained to reporters that his seeming...
troops would be permitted to enter the borders of his state. "We told the United Nations merely that there was complete calm in Katanga." At Jadotville, 100 miles to the north of his capital, the Belgians arrested General Victor Lundula, a former sergeant major who had been named supreme commander of Congo's Force Publique, and handed him over to Tshombe. Grandiloquently, Tshombe ordered the general expelled from Katanga, apparently sparing him a .. j se fate because he had "acted considerately" about the welfare of white men during the "disturbances" in Jadotville...