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Alexander was equally brusque with Lumumba. On one occasion, Lumumba launched a 4-hour harangue in which he damned the United Nations as "a bunch of imperialists." When it was over, Alexander smiled coldly, said, "Mr. Premier, an imperialist bids you good night," and stalked from Lumumba's presence. The Premier did somewhat better when he ordered Alexander to clear all Belgian troops from Leopoldville by 6 o'clock. The general pointed out that it was already 6:10. "That," said Lumumba grandly, "is your problem, general, and I leave it to you to solve in your...
...could keep up with Lumumba, and, apparently, nothing could get him down. When both houses of Congo's Parliament refused to ratify his hasty ultimatum to the U.N. and his arbitrary breakoff of relations with Belgium, Lumumba's only reaction was to say he could not consult Parliament because its members were plotting against his life. He specifically named as chief assassins moderate Senate Speaker Joseph Ileo and two of his old political rivals, Jean Bolikango and Albert Kalonji...
Crimson Tilt. Since Lumumba will not remain in one place long enough for his political coloration to show, most Leopoldville observers eye dubiously the three men closest to him, all of whom have obvious Red leanings. Of the three, Secretary of State for Defense Jacques Lundula and Lumumba's private secretary, Bernard Salumu, have made junkets to Red China. Information Minister Anicet Kashamura runs the Congo radio and, at least on those days when puzzled Congolese technicians can get it on the air, broadcasts endless letters of sympathy from Communist groups in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Russia. His favorite charge...
Reckless Rush. At week's end reckless Patrice Lumumba took off for New York and the U.N. The heady prospect of having a world forum for his torrential words seems, in Lumumba's opinion, well worth the risk of being ousted from power while absent from his disordered homeland. In Leopoldville and some of the other large cities under U.N. control, a few factories were cautiously reopened by European managers, and peddlers were again hawking carved trinkets of ivory and mahogany on the streets. But there was promise of a new dispute. Belgian troops withdrew only...
Stopping off in Accra for a few hours talk with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-whose lordly behavior makes a strong appeal to nationalist leaders like Lumumba -he flew on to London. A passel of Fascist-minded Mosleyites picketed the Ritz Hotel where Lumumba stopped, and Ghana's High Commissioner in Britain, Sir Edward Asafu-Adjaye, was knocked down by two of the Mosleyites, whose slogan is "Keep Britain White!" Unscathed, as usual, Patrice Lumumba reached New York's Idlewild airport this week. Speaking to a dawn patrol of newsmen, Lumumba said softly that peace in Congo...