INCOMING TELEGRAM . . Department of State CONFIDENTIAL 33 Action. | Control: 1.9613. - Rec’d: = MAY 26, 1962 | ot 7 2:06 PI 10 FROM: BRUSSELS | | , 2200 PM info : Ss TO: Secretary of State | a8 NO: 2267, MAY 26, 3 PM SP . | oF . L AF ACTION DEPARTMENT 2267, INFORMATION ‘LONDON 577s LEOPOLDVILLE EUR 51s PARIS 598s ELISABETHVILLE 23h USUN 643, USUMBUR A 174. =WIDA , Pp EMBTEL 209 IOP INR AMBASSADOR MET WITH LINNER MAY 23 SHORTLY AFTER HIS RETURN TO BRUSSELS FOR DISCUSSION CONGO AND RUANDA-URUND I's RMR “CONGO. LINNER HAD . JUST RETURNED TO BRUSSELS FROM. VISIT AN LONDON WHICH HAD. LEFT HIM MUCH DISCOURAGED. LORD. HOME. HAD MADE - UNEQUIVOCALLY CLEAR TO LINNER UK.WOULD. VETO ANY RESOLUTION IN SECURITY .COUNC IL WHICH BR IT }SH. GOVERNMENT CONS IDERED - COULD LEAD. TO USE OF FORCE AND HAD BEEN MOST RESISTENT “TO-LINNERS* “SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING STATIONING UN TROOPS IN KOLWEZ! AND JADOTVILLE. LORD HOME HAD SAID UK CONSIDERED ABSOLUTELY INDEFENSIBLE USE OF MILITARY. FORCE AS ‘MEANS OF FINANC AL PRESSURE. ‘IN REPLY’ LINNER STRESSED THAT UK GOVERNMENT HAD ' NOT OPPOSED RESOLUT IONS UNDER WHICH UNOC IS TRYING.TQ CARRY OUT ITS PURPOSE AND WAS THEREFORE [LLOGT CAL FOR UK: “TO TAKE POSIT FON. OPPOSING PUTTING UN FORCES IN KOLWEZI. AND JADOTVILLE, BUT ‘LORD HOME HAD. REITERATED IDEA WAS, ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE LINNERS? DISCUSSION WITH BRITISH FINANC TAL INTERESTS HAD BEEN DIFFICULT BUT HE FELT SLIGHTLY MORE PRODUCTIVE « INITIALLY HE HAD ENCOUNTERED COMPLETE RESISTANCE FROM CAPTAIN WATERHOUSE - AND TANGANYIKA CONCESSIONS REPRESENTATIVES o THOUGH BY END OF: CONVERSATIONS ATMOSPHERE HAD BECOME MORE PLEASANT AND TANGANYIKA CONCESS ONS REPRESENTATIVES ALLEGED THAT: THEY NOW. REALIZED. UN. WAS ATTEMPTING TO REMEDY SITUATION AND TO PROTECT THEIR. INTERESTS NOT DO THEM DAMAGE, LINNER WAS NOT OPTIMISTIC CONCRETE ACTION WOULD BE FORTHCOMING ALTHOUGH HE FELT’ THEY NO. "REPRODUCTION FROM: THIS COPY" IS CONFIDENTIAL PROHIBITED UNLESS “UNCLASSIFIED” HW 49061 DBocld:326276630 Page 2
HW 49061 CONF IDENT IAL ~2= 2267, MAY 26, 3 PM FROM BRUSSELS LONGER REGARDED UN. AS ENEMY. TANGANYIKA CONCESSIONS .- REPRESENTATIVES HAD MADE CLEAR THAT THEY EXERCISED GREAT- INFLUENCE. ON UMHK REPR ESENTATIVES: JN BRUSSELS AND INTENDED CONTINUE EXERCISE THAT INFLUENCE- ALONG WHAT THEY CONSIDERED TO.BE SOUND LINES, 1.E. AVOIDANCE ANY ACTION. WHICH MIGHT PRECIPITATE HOSTILITIES IN. KAFANGA OR LEAD TO THREATS OF RETAL LATION AGAINST UME PROPERTIES « NONETHELESS, LINNER HAS NOT ENTIRELY ABANDONED HfS IDEA- CONCERNING. DESIRABILITY TRYING TO BUY TSHOMBE OFF AND TRYING TO OFFER UMHK PROTECTION BY UN FORCES. HE IS NOW THINKING. IN TERMS. OF. MIXED UN-UMHK GUARDS | IN QUTLYING AREAS BUT ADMITS THAT BASIC DIFFICULTY IS WHETHER TSHOMBE AGREES. IF TSHOMBE AGREES, THERE WOULD -PROBABLY BE NO NEED FOR GUARDS, WHEREAS IF TSHOMBE REFUSES, - 11 WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE POSSIBLE OFFER ADEQUATE PROTECTION TO UMHK OR OTHER BUSINESS INSTALLATIONS. AS FOR SECUR I NG TSHOMBE *S CONSENT, LINNER ALSO ADMITS THAT IT DOES NOT SEEM POSSIBLE _ TO HOPE ALONG LINES OF BUYING TSHOMBE OFF SINCE HE IS ALREADY DOING-WELL FINALLY. GIVEN ATTITUDE OF BRITISH FINANCIAL: INTERESTS, LINNER WAS CLEARLY DOUBTFUL WHETHER ANY KIND OF. PRESSURE COULD BE DEVELOPED ON TSHOMBE OR WHETHER INDUCEMENTS WHICH COULD BE PRESENTED WOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO | MAKE HIM CHANGE HIS MIND. ONE RAY OF HOPE WAS~ THAT CAPTAIN WATERHOUSE IS COMING TO BRUSSELS -NEXT WEEK FOR DISCUSS TONS: WITH UMHKs AND LINNER HAS SOME HOPE BELGIANS, WHO “ARE - DISTINCTLY MORE FLEX! BLE THAN: BRITISH, CAN WEAR DOWN SGME- WHAT WATERHOUSE RESISTANCE TO ANY FORWARD MOTION. RUANDA=-URUNDI. . AMBASSADOR URGED ON LINNER THAT HE SEEK EARLY OPPORTUNITY SEE SPAAK RE REACHING SOME FORM GOB-UN UNDERSTANDING CONCERNING CONTINUATION UN PRESENCE IN RUANDA- URUND IT TN FORM WHICH WILL HELP GOB RETAIN IN TERRITORIES TECHNICIANS AND THOSE TROOPS NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN ORDER eo ° LINNER AGREED AND SAID HE WOULD SEE SPAAK SOON. MACARTHUR RUT. oe CONF IDENT IAL Docld:32762766850 Page 3