Word: secessionism
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Sir: 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.
Adoula is under pressure from the U.S. to be generous toward Tshombe, if he is willing to end the secession. The question remains how generous Adoula can afford to be without weakening his own position in the eyes of his supporters and his left-wing rivals. Any major concessions to...
Madison fought the war mainly to stop British harassing of U.S. shipping. British men-of-war were keeping U.S. ships out of European ports and halting them on the high seas to impress U.S. sailors into the British navy. Madison never did succeed in rallying the nation behind the war...
Tshombe's victory may not last long. Khiari made it plain at a press conference in Ndola that Katanga's "secession is a matter of fact, but it is not legal nor is it a right." Returning to Leopoldville, he told newsmen that he hoped to help "Katanga...
Other U.N. troops were deployed throughout the city. Indians took the state radio building after a charge with fixed bayonets. Swedish troops attacked the home of Tshombe's Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo (who had fled). Shortly after dawn, the U.N. forces gained their objectives, and O'Brien called...