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...flew westward, angry voices pursued him. At least for the moment, his backdown over Katanga had dented U.N. prestige in Africa. Both Guinea's Premier Sékou Touré and Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah rushed out statements of support for Lumumba's Congo government, offered to mobilize their minuscule armed forces to help throw the Belgians out. "This," announced Touré, "is henceforth the responsibility of African soldiers." But the sharpest cut of all came from the weather-vane Congo government, whose Cabinet only a few hours earlier had voted full confidence in Dag. From...
Washington airport was dank as any Congo rain forest. The diplomatic greeters, led by Secretary of State Christian Herter, huddled under a long blue canopy on rollers, but rain trickled down the back of the Egyptian ambassador's neck and plonked off the Homburg of the ambassador from Guinea. From a MATS Convair stepped Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba, 35, wearing his customary blue suit and brown Italian loafers. He gazed at a blue, gold-starred Congo flag that had, all too obviously, been hand-sewn that morning, and a Marine Corps band struck up Stars and Stripes Forever...
...matter of hours, Hammarskjold had pledges of troops from Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Tunisia and Ethiopia; the first Ghanaian detachment was in Leopoldville within 24 hours. From Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian...
Disgorged Troops. The huge U.S. operation, directed from U.S.A.F.E. headquarters in Wiesbaden, West Germany, delivered hundreds of tons of flour from U.S. depots in France and West Germany, ferried in troops from Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia and Guinea. U.S. planes touched down at Cairo, swallowed up 650 blue-helmeted Swedish troops from the UNEF force at Gaza, disgorged them again 2,700 miles away in Leopoldville. Out of the shuttling intercontinental planes came food rations, Jeeps, heavy trucks, communications equipment, dismantled light planes. At the request of the U.N. command, the U.S. flew in ten Douglas C-47s, turned them over...
...With the sole exception of Guinea, not a single new African state has shown the slightest sign of wishing to be counted part of the Communist bloc...