Evening star., 1960-12-06
Russia Fails
InCa|| for u. n.
Talk on Congo
Western Delegates
Deny Any Need
For Night Session

Valerian A. Zorin failed today
in his efforts to call an
emergency night session Of the
Security Council on the Congo.
Angry Western delegates
denounced the move by Mr.,
zorin, the Council president,
as arbitrary.
The United Nations an
nounced: There will be no
Security Council meeting to-
night"
Mr.. Zorin had sought the
meeting for $3.50 pm. But
Western members made known
they did not consider the situa-
ton in the Congo as warrant
ing such haste. They said they
had not been consulted by Mr..
Zorin. and charged him with
abusing his powers as presi!
dent.
Mr.. zorin handed the request
for the meeting to Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold in
an attempt to get a full Council
airing Immediately Of the
arrest and detention Of deposed
Congo Premier Patrice Lu-
mumba.
Council Members PolIed
Mr.. Hammarskjold polled
members of the l1-natior
Council and obviously did not
f1nd support for q night meet
ing.
Mr.. Zorin circulated at u. N
headquarters a declaration de-
manding the immediate release
Of Mr.. Lumumba, the disarm-
ing Of the army directed by
Strongman Col. Joseph Mobutu
and the expulsion of all Bel
gian civilian and military per-
sonnel in the Congo.
Meanwhile, the United Arab
Republic became the third
member Of the u. N. Congo
Cancellation commission to
withdraw amid growing doubt
that the Asian-African group
would ever get to Leopoldville,
Guinea and Mali, two sup
porters Of Mr.. Lumumba, pre-
viously had withdrawn in pro-
test against the decision Of the
General Assembly to seat a
delegation headed by Congo
President Joseph Kasavubu.
A UAR spokesman said his
country's representative, DR.
Hassan El-Zayyat, had quit
the 15-member commission be-
cause of alleged stalling by MIR.
Kasavubu in giving the group
the promised permission to
visit the Congo.
TOure Protests
The Mobutu government al
ready had broken diplomatic
relations with the UAR.
In another development the
United Nations published two
cables from Guinea's President
Sekou Toure to Mr.. Hammar-
skiold criticizing the U. N. atti-
tude on the arrest and deten-
ton Of Mr.. Lumumba. One Of
the cables protested against
what 1t called the "unpardon-
able indifference" Of the q. N.
representative. The other said
Guinea reserved all rights to
support the Congolese people
within a purely African
framework"
The Soviet declaration
planned the United States, Bel
gium. Britain and France for
the Congo situation. It called
these countries knights of the
money bags"
"The plundering Of the Congo
riches-that is what is under
lying the violence and crimes
perpetrated now by the colo
nialists and their stooges in the
Congo" the statement said.
Hammarskjold AssaiIed
It further referred to "the
disgraceful role of the q. N.
Secretary General and his rep
resentatives in the Congo"
The statement said:
"The developments in the
congo confirm without a
shadow Of a doubt that the
stand taken by the Soviet gov
ernment from the outset of the
imperialist aggression against
the Republic Of the Congo has
been right and that the strong
and consistent criticism leveled
by the Soviet Union at the ac-
tions of the U. N. Secretary
General, Mr.. Hammarskjold
who displayed servility towards
the colonialists. was justified
and Indispensable"