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...week's end Léon Pétillon, Minister of the Belgian Congo, a veteran of 17 years in Africa, was able to say soothingly to a huge crowd in Léopoldville: "Be not upset about your future. Have care for it, but not fear: Belgium is conscious of the needs of your nascent political state. Cast a backward glance at all that has been accomplished during the last 50 years. Why should the future be less generous to you than the past?" The only unanswered question: Would the future be as generous to Belgium...
...Congo. A thousand miles to the West, in the prosperous Congo, Belgian Governor General Léo Pétillon, 52, spoke out still more boldly. To the 14 million Negroes and 70,000 whites he announced a drastic change in Belgium's successful policy of economic advance but no votes -for whites or blacks. Henceforth, educated Africans will 1) be gradually assimilated into the Congo's administration, 2) get a voice in local councils...
...tackled; economic development no longer is enough." Last month the Little Lion ordered all Congolese bars to admit Africans so long as they behave well and are properly dressed. When some owners refused to admit Negroes unless they first submitted to a medical checkup, Pétillon bluntly warned them to obey his decree...
...through Pride. At the same time, warned Pétillon, the Negroes, and especially the évoluants or educated ones, must learn to get along with the whites. "The évoluants sin through pride. And there is no more serious-and may I add -revolting form of pride than that cultivated by those who, having but little merit and suffering from their own inadequacy, take on the attitude of martyrs. There is no more stupid attitude than to blame every difficulty which is merely the result, of life itself on the European authority...
...tillon's new policy of selective assimilation will not make the Congo a democracy, for the government, in the person of the Little Lion, fully intends to retain "control through veto." Yet in the absence of a white-dominated parliament, benevolent despotism in the Congo may do more than some African democracies to bring peace and some kind of assured future for Africa's blacks and whites...