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Congo. The tenacity of able U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion in Leopoldville helped bring Katanga's stubborn Moise Tshombe and Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula together in a pact at Kitona (TIME, Dec. 29). Now the problem was to enforce the pact, and to bring Tshombe's secessionist province back into a unified Congo. Last week, as promised, Tshombe sent Katanga delegates to Leopoldville to sit with Adoula's commission in drafting revisions for the Congolese constitution. Other omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding...
...Katanga action may be justified only superficially by anti-colonialism. "The use of force for the apprehension of foreign military personnel and advisers in Katanga," which Hoffmann condemns, was probably necessary to quash Tshombe. That, in turn, was a precondition to the institution of a strong Central Government, which is the dream of anyone anxious to avoid a polarization of Cold War forces in the Congo: anyone, in short, who supported what Hoffmann called Hammarskjold's conception of the UN. Hoffmann's confusion of these quite different military actions is surprising. Ce qui n'est pas clair...
String of Myths? From the U.S. State Department came more slaps at Katanga -poorly timed in view of the delicate negotiations just beginning in Leopoldville. Two top officials flatly accused Tshombe's regime of tailoring propaganda to Katanga's own set of questionable facts. G. Mennen Williams, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in a Detroit speech accused the Katanga regime of fabricating "horrendous tales of indiscriminate mayhem by the United Nations troops.'' In a Philadelphia speech the same evening, Carl T. Rowan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, added the accusation that...
...Spare Parts." The U.N. also insisted that a regular flow of arms and supplies was moving north to Katanga from Northern Rhodesia, the British-backed territory run by Tshombe's white friend, Rhodesian Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky. Purpose: a new buildup of Katanga army units now making their headquarters at Kipushi, a mining town smack on the Katanga-Rhodesian frontier. Sir Roy denied all, and boarded a plane for a personal inspection on the Katanga frontier to make certain that no war contraband was getting through...
...could say how long the precarious truce in Katanga would last. The U.N.'s allegations already had prompted Tshombe to retaliate with angry charges of his own. Ominously, he announced that the central Congolese soldiers brought in by the U.N. were attacking villages in Katanga's north; if true, Katanga's own soldiers might soon start shooting again...