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Harried Joseph Kasavubu had behind him not only the Western bloc but a new factor in U.N. politics-tribal ties. Cassock-clad Abbé Fulbert Youlou, the President of the former French Congo and, like Kasavubu, an Abako tribesman, rallied nine French Community states, helped beat back the adjournment motion 51 to 36. Result: after a bit more debate, Kasavubu seemed likely to get the coveted seat...
...Congo, the prevailing voice was that of President Fulbert Youlou, the cassocked, nonpracticing priest who runs the old French Congo. Living just across the river from Léopoldville, and a fellow Bakongo tribesman of Congo President Joseph Kasavubu, Youlou rallied the other delegates to a stand that urged the U.N. to cooperate with Kasavubu. said nothing at all about Kasavubu's archrival, Patrice Lumumba...
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...
Wiry, goateed Patrice Lumumba, 34, the Batetela tribesman from Stanleyville, whizzed about grandly in a black limousine as he dickered desperately to get control of the first government. Chubby, 43-year-old Joseph Kasavubu, loyal to his Bakongo people, was also deep in negotiation with key faction leaders such as Paul Bolya of the Mongo tribe and Jean Boli-kango, the Ngombe spokesman. The corridors of Leopoldville's new Palais de la Nation echoed to the jabber of a score of languages and dialects, for the Congo's first legislators represent a nation of more than 150 separate...
...sheep, and with no major mineral resources, Somaliland is economically almost worthless and politically one of the most backward of all British territories. Local self-government was not attempted before 1953; in its first voting last year for 13 elective seats, authorities in one district could not find any tribesman willing to become a candidate. But to hold on to the colony promised more trouble than it was worth, since its Somalis have been agitating to join French Somaliland to form a single Somali nation at the mouth...