Word: katanga
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...Katanga...
...Considering events in Katanga, we Norwegians count ourselves lucky that there was no U.N. and no Dag Hammarskjold in 1905; otherwise, we would have had Ethiopian and Italian troops here to prevent our secession and enforce the authority of the central government in Stockholm...
...task now facing the UN and the United States government is to follow up their success by staying at the conference table as long as it takes to merge Katanga into a workable Congo Union...
...Katanga must be effectively integrated into a Congo Union because the sole alternative is chaos. Order in the Congo is still--as it was on the day its independence was proclaimed, a year and a half ago--dependent on the existence of a strong central government. And that government must be able to claim the loyalty and respect of the hostile tribes and language groups in its population...
This central government must have at least the resources that the Belgian administrators had available to them --the resources of Katanga. Perhaps additional capital will come to a new Congo state from private investors and organizations such as the World Bank. But domestic order--which presupposes the subduing of secessionist revolt, and control of the national wealth--must come first...