Word: katanga
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...Africans regard your State Department's fumblings in the Congo and Katanga with the same apprehension as if watching a drunk trying to fix our only watch-by tearing out the only working part without thought of getting it together again...
...Kennedy content to go down in history as the President who denied air support to anti-Communists fighting desperately to regain their homes in Cuba, but gave quick air support to forces slaughtering anti-Communists fighting desperately to protect their homes in Katanga...
...present, the U.N., with the help of the U.S., is busily engaged in destroying the only base on which the ex-Belgian Congo can thrive, and precipitating Katanga into the same chaos as the rest of the country. The U.S. seems to be like a ship driven by the winds of the opinion of the anti-Western part of the world. It is becoming more and more evident that Europe and its friends will have to save themselves from their enemies in spite of the "help...
...week that rule was broken when 22 members of the society's 25-man governing council, meeting in Manhattan at the Harvard Club, put forth a pronouncement deploring "intervention by the United States Government, in collusion with the United Nations, to destroy by armed force the independence of Katanga...
...This action," said the Birchers, "betrays many fundamental principles of our Republic and goes counter to precedents repeatedly established in respect to countries smaller both in area and population . . . [Katanga President] Tshombe and his people are a Christian, anti-Communist nation friendly to us. They are fighting to establish a free constitutional representative republic...