Word: lumumba
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...Well Done." In Washington, Lumumba settled into Blair House and popped over for talks with Herter. A goateed picture of confidence, he came out to indulge in some calculated exaggeration: "Now I know that the U.S. does not approve, and will never approve, the efforts to divide our country." State Department officials, admitting that the performance was "very well done," felt obliged to issue the "clarification" that the U.S. was backing the U.N., not Lumumba...
...diplomats, who had once dismissed him as a demagogue or a nut, began to wonder if Lumumba had not known all along what he was doing. "He was sitting down there feeling pretty vulnerable," mused one. "So he mentions the Russians, and nothing could bring the house down faster. Everyone panics, and the U.N. really begins to move." The consensus: "Erratic, but a tough, clever...
Patchwork. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold spent the week listening to angry demands from both sides. After counseling patience to Lumumba in New York, he flew to Brussels. Hammarskjold's session with Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Cabinet was heated. The Belgians argued that they would be complying with the U.N. resolution if they withdrew their troops to their two main bases in the Congo, pleaded that the U.N. should stay out of Katanga. Dag was unimpressed. As is his way, he pointed out that the U.N. resolution asked the Belgians to leave "the territory of the Congo...
...frustrated and fuming Belgians behind, Hammarskjold turned down the offer of a Belgian jet to Leopoldville, boarded instead a KLM DC-7 to neutral Brazzaville, across the river in French Congo. Crossing the river in a launch, he soon was confronting the Congolese Cabinet. Prodded by sharp telegrams from Lumumba, the Cabinet insistently demanded that Hammarskjold use force if necessary to clear the Belgian troops out of Katanga...
This week, the Congo may even have a functioning government. After a whirlwind trip from Washington to Canada, where he got Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's promise of a 100-man-army communications network in the Congo, Lumumba buzzed back to New York. On his schedule were nothing but a trip to Macy's, the purchase of some English language records and a flight for home, presumably to try to solve some of the problems he has just been talking about up till...