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...protect the Congo!" said Baudouin, and formally proclaimed its independence. But New Premier Patrice Lumumba, jealous of the limelight everyone else was enjoying, took the opportunity to launch a vicious attack on the departing Belgian rulers. "Slavery was imposed on us by force!" he cried, as the King sat shocked and pale. "We have known ironies and insults. We remember the blows that we had to submit to morning, noon and night because we were Negroes!" Deeply offended, King Baudouin was ready to board his plane and return to Brussels forthwith. Only the urging from his ministers persuaded...
Troubled Team. Kasavubu was confident. He had already been named by the Belgians as formateur to choose the first government. But when the ballots in the grey wastebasket were counted, Lumumba had won. His supporters danced with joy and playfully tugged at their leader's beard. The humiliated Kasavubu sat staring into space...
With the premiership safely in his grasp, Lumumba promptly renewed his offer to make Kasavubu President-a chiefly ceremonial office under the proposed constitution. To everyone's surprise, Kasavubu accepted...
Eyes of Fire. Lumumba is the Congo's nearest approach to a national figure. He is determined to install a strong central government rising above tribal loyalties. The son of a Batetela tribesman, he grew up in equatorial Stanleyville, where he attended first a Catholic, then a Protestant mission school, finally completing his education at the Belgians' training school for postal employees. A year after Lumumba took his first job as clerk in the Stanleyville post office, he was in jail, convicted of embezzling $2,520 of government money. Freed in 1957, he prospered as the persuasive salesman...
...nervous Belgians could only guess at the policies Lumumba will pursue. He would like to eliminate the Senate, which he considers the stronghold of the conservative tribal chiefs. He has promised not to nationalize the big Belgian interests and professes to guarantee the safety of other foreign investment, but his socialist inclinations are strong. In foreign policy, his line will probably be neutralist, following the example of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, whom Lumumba admires. Whether Lumumba could forge any coherent policy out of his cumbersome new executive structure seemed open to question, for he had promised so many things...