Friday, July 3, 1964
Summer Session Kansan
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Congo Is Still Torn Nation On Its Fourth Anniversary
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
According to the blueprint, this should be a week of celebration and thanksgiving for the Republic of the Congo.
The fact that on this fourth anniversary of Congolese independence the Congo finds itself in the grip of revolt and chaos, anxiety and fear shows how far the builders have departed from the blueprint.
IN FOUR YEARS, U.N. peacekeeping efforts cost $408 million, with approximately $171 million of it coming from the United States. And peace and stability in the Congo still are measured in terms of years away.
As the last of 20,000 United Nations troops depart the Congo, revolt large and small tears at the provinces of Kwilu, Kivu and North Katanga.
Independence in the Congo did not have an auspicious beginning.
Scarceely had King Baudouin of Belgium proclaimed the Congolese free than Patrice Lumumba, the country's first premier, launched a bitter attack against the "humiliating slavery" of Belgian colonialism. . . "The ironies, the insults, the blows that we had to submit to morning, noon and night because we were Negroes."
The history of the Congo has indeed been full of ironies, of promises made and broken, of a tremendous United Nations effort and a withdrawal today with peace not yet secure, and, at the beginning, of a huge and strategic territory whose economic base had been established without the necessary accompaniment of education and political responsibility.
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gathering now in Leopoldville, the capital, of names familiar in the first days of independence when first the new republic seemed destined to fly apart by its own violence.
Moise Tshombe, who in the early moments of Congolese independence decided he wanted no part of it and established himself as President of the mineral-rich secessionist province of Katanta. He fought three wars against the United Nations and Congolese troops, and lost.
... And finally, Antoline Gizenga,
once the favorite African son of the
Soviets and former leftist president
of Orientale Province.
or other
LUMUMBA, whose mantle Gizenga has attempted to take over. Of the early ones, Lumumba is the important one not present. He died while imprisoned under the care of Tshombe. It was no great loss to the west, only the way of his dying which came about allegedly while trying to escape.
The former self-styled King Albert Kalonji who declared himself king, emperor and god of the "independent Diamond state" of Kasai Province.
Their aid is sought now by the Leopoldville government of Premier Cyrille Adoula and President Joseph Kasavubu only in the desperate need for help against communist-supported revolts in both east and west and mounting unrest among disillusioned tribesmen.
NOT THE LEAST ironic is the
And from this may come the final irony. For Tshomeb may emerge the new premier. The sophisticated Tshomeb has this advantage:
"I have," he says, "no inferiority complex toward the white man as do some of my Congolese colleagues."
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