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...left-wing rivals. Any major concessions to Tshombe will produce charges from Communist-supported Gizenga that the central government has sold out to the colonial interests. Adoula's prestige has not been helped by the fact that, so far at least, the U.N. has operated against Katanga entirely without the help of the central government's weak, undisciplined army. Adoula eagerly offered this help, but the U.N. declined...
Negotiating an agreement with Tshombe, tempering the bitterness left in Katanga, strengthening Adoula enough to enable him to cope with Gizenga, building a reasonably efficient and civilized administration in the Congo-all these are staggering tasks looming beyond the battle of Katanga. It is inconceivable that they can be carried out by the Congolese without outside help, which presumably will have to come from or through the U.N. Contemplating the travail of the Congo, which has a large Roman Catholic population, Pope John XXIII said last week: "Just as it was about to harvest, from political independence, the long-awaited...
This man deep in Africa had his loyal list of partisans, and it was growing. Their bitterness focused on the U.S. for its support of the U.N. action against Katanga. Two hundred Katangese youths demonstrated at the U.S. consulate in Elisabethville, some of them breaking into the building before the police finally arrived. In Brussels, university students threw stones and hunks of metal at the windows of the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with the United Nations!" A deputy in parliament declared hotly that the U.S.-backed Congo operation was "savagery worthy of Mussolini in Ethiopia," and another Belgian likened...
Tshombe had his friends in the U.S. Congress as well. One vocal group of U.S. supporters formed a Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters; its roster ranged from respectable conservatives to right-wing ultras and included such Southern states' righters as Racist Senator James Eastland of Mississippi. They reasoned that Tshombe is one of the few African leaders who are proven anti-Communists and friendly to the white man. Katanga, continued the argument, has a right to self-determination if it prefers independence from the central government, particularly since it is by far the stablest of all Congolese...
...self-determination" argument, the U.S. replied that Tshombe does not speak for all of Katanga, and that, at any rate, the principle of self-determination cannot be indiscriminately invoked by any territory or province. Neither the Congo nor Katanga is a nation in anything like the modern sense, but, as the U.S. sees it, the Congo as a whole, with its continuous 75-year history as a Belgian colony, has a more sensible claim to nationhood than one of its parts...