Page 4 University Daily Kansan Wednesdav.May 3.1961
Future Looks Brighter For Troubled Congo
By Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In the topsy-turvy Congo there suddenly is guarded hope that things have taken a turn for the better.
Strangely, this turn sprang in part from an act of violence in which the central government of President Joseph Kasavubu said it had no part and which certainly came as a surprise to the United Nations command there.
That was last week's detention of Katanga President Moise Tshombe as he and his Belgian advisers sought to depart the Coquilhatville airport after serving an ultimatum on Kasavubu and other Congolese leaders to end their cooperation with the United Nations.
Ostensibly, the handful of Congolese troops who seized Tshombe were acting on their own and were demanding that he end his differences with the other leaders.
Be that as it may, both the Congolese leaders and the U.N. were quick to seize the advantage offered them.
The U.N. announced the arrest of Tshombe's six Belgian advisers and bundled them off to Leopoldville for "interrogation" and likely deportation.
Kasavubu and the Congolese leaders remaining at the Coquilhatville conference reaffirmed their policy of cooperation with the U.N., and asked that all military forces not under the control of the chief of state be disarmed.
With Tshombe curbed at least momentarily, there remained at least one other powerful factor with which Kasavubu and his central government must deal. That was the Stanleyville regime of Communist-backed Antoine Gizenga.
It also announced that Tshombe would not be allowed to return to Katanga but would be held in Leopoldville indefinitely.
There has been growing confidence of late that the time has passed when Communist aid could be poured in to Gizenga to the extent that he could endanger the central government, and there are signs that he now would like to reach an agreement.
Any such agreement would free the hands of the United Nations permitting it to turn its full force on Katanga.
About 1.000 Indian troops have been vegetating in Katanga and presumably would be delighted to take over the job of disarming Tshombe's private army.
UPI correspondent Ray Moloney has reported from Elizabethville, capital of Katanga, that Tshombe's position there has been weakening steadily. Despite its natural wealth, the Katanga treasury is exhausted, living costs are soaring and his mercenary army is restless.
If his Belgian advisers were to depart, Tshombe would be a king without a throne.
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LONDON — (UPI) — A 38-year-old British government employee pleaded guilty today to charges he spied for Russia for nearly 10 years.
Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller said the man, George Blake, had made a full confession and had given the government a mass of information about his espionage activities which began in November, 1951.
MANNINGHAM - BULLER said information of "very great importance" to British security had been
passed by Blake to "a Soviet contact."
It was the second time this year that the famed courtroom No.1 of the old Bailey criminal court was the scene for a sensational case involving espionage for the Soviet Union.
Last March 5, a Russian, two Americans and two Britons were convicted of operating a spy ring which stole secrets from the naval base at Portland and radioed them directly to Moscow.
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