Word: secessionist
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Chain of Letters. Lumumba seemed neither in effective control of his country nor of himself. He sent an irate note to Hammarskjold accusing him of ignoring the Congo's central government, of "acting in connivance" with the secessionist regime in the Congo's Katanga province, and of deliberately misinterpreting his instructions from the U.N. Security Council. Then, blithely ignoring the fact that the U.N. had already dispatched 2,000 African (Moroccan, Mali and Ethiopian) troops to Katanga. Lumumba accused Dag of sending in only units from Ireland (there were no Irish troops in Katanga) and from Sweden...
...chief of an international supergovernment exclusively at the service of the Afro-Asian countries that have sworn to humiliate and humble Westerners.'' One wing of French opinion regards Katanga as a dangerous precedent. What if Algeria got its independence, and the European colons set up a secessionist state along the Algerian coast? Would U.N. troops fly in to guarantee all Algeria to the Moslems...
...them "on request." Its only mission in Katanga, he says, is to replace Belgian troops with U.N. troops. When the Belgians are gone, if Katanga still wishes to secede, Hammarskjold's U.N. troops will not interfere. Should Lumumba and his pulled-together Force Publique try to reconquer a secessionist Katanga, the U.N. force under its present directive from the Security Council would have to stand aside and let them fight it out. Hammarskjold has scrupulously refrained from backing Lumumba's regime. The U.N. may find itself bogged in a tropical rain forest for years to come...
...embarrassing failure. The authority of Lumumba's central government extended no farther than the sound of his voice. As soon as he left a town or a province, power returned to whoever was strong enough and ruthless enough to wield it. At Elisabethville, capital of the secessionist province of Katanga, the plane was denied permission to land. A spokesman for the Katanga leader, Moise Tshombe, said that President Kasavubu was welcome, but "we refuse to let that other character set foot on Katangese soil." When the two harassed leaders took off from Luluabourg and headed for Stanleyville, they never...
...calm evening that followed days of strong northeast wind and record tides. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, a merchant-banker, of a Dutch family famous for seven generations in New York philanthropy, was a "Lincoln Republican." His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia-bred secessionist. One of T.R.'s first memories was about how he cheered for the Union and about how he would cheer even louder to reply to his mother's discipline. One night at family prayers Theodore fervently appealed to the Lord of Hosts to "grind the Southern troops into powder...