UN General Assembly
1961

to expel from Congolese territory the foreign officers and mercenaries recruited by the self-styled Katangese Government to sustain the secession of the province. For it is a matter of common knowledge that the Katangese gendarmerie officered not only by undesirable Belgian reactionaries but also by a rabble of soldiers of all kinds who have already been indulging in murder and robbery in Algeria for eight years, by Rhodesians, by South Africans—by those very men whose hatred of the man of colour is well known to the whole world. Is there not a patent contradiction between the attitude of these men elsewhere and the eagerness they display to serve the black man in Katanga? No, for where there are interests involved no contradictions can arise. What they want is not to support the people of the Congo or their cause, but to seize their ore and keep their copper,