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...Demands. His heavy jaw jutting like one of Ionesco's man-turned-rhinoceros, and flanked by two beetling aides,* Zorin laid out the Soviet demands in his curious reedy tenor: 1) arrest Katanga's Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army Major General Joseph Mobutu, and put them on trial; 2) dissolve all Tshombe and Mobutu troop units and force all Belgians out of the Congo; 3) pull the U.N. force out of the Congo within a month...
...freedom and national independence of the Congo cannot be guaranteed so long as the mercenary clique of Tshombe, Mobutu and Kasavubu have free rein,'' cried Zorin, adding, "An end must be put once and for all to the so-called United Nations operation in the Congo. The Congolese people must be given the opportunity to solve their own vital problems...
...Hammarskjold, intoned Zorin, "the Secretary-General has directly participated in the collective plans of the colonizers whose final goal is to stifle the young African republic . . . there is not the slightest justification for considering that he has seen the light and is prepared to change his course." Zorin's target was as much the office of Secretary-General as the man who occupied it. Last October, during Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging visit to the General Assembly, the Soviet Premier had proclaimed his dislike of Hammarskjold ("We do not trust Mr. Hammarskjold and cannot trust him"), demanded that...
...Zorin attacked him, Hammarskjold sat toying with a pencil or puffing on a cigarette. Russia, said Zorin, would henceforth refuse to have any dealing with Hammarskjold, would address all business to a Deputy Secretary-General, Russia's Georgy Arkadev. It was a gambit that the Russians had also tried on Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve Lie, who lost Russia's favor in 1950 when he supported the U.N.'s defense of South Korea. Lie weathered Moscow's snubs until November 1952, but finally found it impossible to continue in his post...
Turning to the Congo, Stevenson jabbed back at Zorin. He reminded the Council that Patrice Lumumba himself had first asked the U.S. for troops to restore order, and the U.S. told him to appeal to the U.N. Stevenson noted tartly: "We rejoice to hear the Soviet denounce political assassination with such vehemence . . . We condemn any death without due process of law, whether of African politicians, Hungarian patriots, or Tibetan nationalists ... As to colonialism, my country fought colonialism in 1776 . . . and my countrymen have died to end colonialism in Cuba, though some Cubans seem to have forgotten...