Word: secessionism
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Thunder on the Left. He flew back to Manhattan, raced to the green glass slab of the U.N. building for a 7 p.m. meeting with his staff. At 9, he was closeted with the four small-nation members (currently Ceylon, Tunisia, Argentina, Ecuador) of the eleven-man Security Council. Tunisia...
Earlier at the U.N. and again in Washington, Lumumba hammered away at a single theme: the U.N. must get the Belgian troops out of the entire Congo, including secession-minded Katanga province. "After the Belgian troops leave, peace will be restored in five minutes," he told a U.N. press conference...
Whimpering Children. As the week wore on, the situation grew worse instead of better. Violence exploded in mineral-rich Katanga province, whose political leader, Moise Tshombe, has been advocating secession from the Congo. During a night of terror, mutinous Congolese troops roamed the streets of Elisabethville, the provincial capital, screaming...
The reaction from the French Right was instantaneous. A galaxy of ex-ministers-starring Jacques Soustelle, Georges Bi-dault and Robert Lacoste-charged that De Gaulle's conciliatory words would undermine the French forces in Algeria or even lead to secession. In Algeria, diehard colons threatened new demonstrations.
Object was to choose men to lead the new nation, three times the size of Texas, when it becomes independent next month. By decree from Brussels, the Congo's 115,000 whites are not allowed to vote, and most of the half-naked, illiterate black voters had no idea...