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...from African and uncommitted Asian nations, Dag Hammarskjold had staved off the major calamity of a confrontation of the great powers in the Congo. But Hammarskjold had not reckoned with the meddling and intrigues of some of Africa's ambitious new leaders. Chief meddlers were Cairo's Nasser, Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Sékou Touré, all of whom were working earnestly for Lumumba's return. In recent weeks, their troops have been openly taking sides in the Congo's internal squabble. The U.A.R.'s 510-man U.N. unit covertly...
...Fate does not play jokes," wrote President Nasser back in 1955. "We are in a group of circles which should be the theater of our activity-an Arab circle, the circle of the continent of Africa on which fate has placed us," and "a third circle, the circle of our Moslem brethren." Now that Nasser has played out his Arab role for all it was worth, he is turning to exploit Cairo's considerable resources in the other two circles...
...Lumumba's partisans pushed on. From Stanleyville, Lumumba's old friend and former Vice Premier, Antoine Gizenga, probed westward into Equator province, where his patrols terrorized isolated white communities, roughed up some missionaries, rifled mission collection boxes. Arms and supplies came from Gamal Abdel Nasser's U.A.R. troops, who man a U.N. base in Equator. The head of the U.N. Congo force, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, seemed to be at least tacitly helping the Lumumba cause. In northern Katanga, where Gizenga's troops marched into a U.N.-protected "neutral zone" unimpeded by Dayal...
...Stanleyville regime of Antoine Gizenga, once Lumumba's vice premier, was getting clandestine arms shipments from Gamal Abdel Nasser's U.A.R., freely used terror to consolidate its control over neighboring Kivu province. Escaping missionaries were prevented from crossing the border, prisoners of the old pro-Mobutu regime at Bukavu were tortured, and the Mother Superior and a nun from Bukavu's hospital were under arrest for alleged misuse of funds...
...such incident is known to have taken place, the events of the last few years have at least indicated that the Russo-American struggle is resulting in someone's terrific profit and someone else's incredible fleecing. Nasser, we said in 1956, was irresponsible. We hadn't seen Lumumba...