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...panoply was welcome relief from the drabness of life in the Congo today. Six months after the end of the bloody fighting between the U.N. forces and Katanga, the new nation lies exhausted in the equatorial sun, a battered giant unable to make productive use of the freedom its black leaders fought so hard to win. Even with the help of nearly 3,000 Belgian and U.N. technicians and advisers and $86 million of U.S. financial aid, the railroads are not running in most of the Congo, two-thirds of the nation's trucks are idle for lack...
Addressing the Boston University Young Americans for Freedom, Kirk singled out Katanga as a classic example of liberal failings. The American policy was to follow the U.N., and "by this policy we produced anarchy instend of order." "The United Nations is neither a policy-making body nor a world government," Kirk said...
...year, on the strength of his Belgian contacts, Kirk was pressed into special service. He flew to Brussels to persuade officials of the Belgian combine controlling the Congo's giant mining enterprises to accept the proposal for a strong central government in the Congo rather than a powerful Katanga under Moise Tshombe. Recalling that service, the Administration asked aging Alan Kirk to return to Government work. Cheerfully he agreed...
...Swiss scientist who examined the wreckage decided that the cause was probably "human failure" by the pilot. But the U.N. panel refused to accept or reject this possibility, remained similarly noncommittal toward any other theory, including sabotage by Katanga forces, who were battling U.N. troops at the time...
...Sarah Mc-Clendon's favorite tune, I'm going to play it." He dealt deftly with another frequent press critic, New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, and with Washington's Metropolitan Club, which does not admit Negroes. "Krock criticized me for not letting President Tshombe of Katanga come here"the President noted. "So I told him we would work out a deal. I'll give Tshombe a visa and Arthur can give him a dinner at the Metropolitan Club...