Evening star., 1960-08-01
U. N. Failure Charged

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About 60 Belgian troops still
in Leopoldville Province will
withdraw to the Kitona base
today or tomorrow. Some 300
are still on station In Kivu
Province, holding on until the
Irish battalion is in position
Forty-f1ve Belgian soldiers are
still in Oriental Province. at
Bunia. but Ethiopian soldiers
are gradually taking hold. The
NTH province, Equator, is free
Of Belgian troops.
No nation has recognized
Katanga'S proclamation of in.
dependence from the federal
Congo government. The break
away of the rich province-ii
it StickS-would intensity the
acute economic crisis already
facing the month-old African
nation.
Congo Vice Premier Antoine
Gizenga charged in q week.
end speech that the u. N
forces had fallen down on the
job and had permitted "seces.
sion to consolidate" in Ka.
tsnga.
In an implied plea 70,
caution. Mr.. Hammarskjolt
sharply replied: I'VE cannot
adopt the line Of action which
in our minds would not cor.
respond with our responsibility
to the community Of peoples.
U. N. oficials have suggested
the secretary general may con.
fer with Katanga Premier
Noise Tshombe in Elisabeth.
vile before completing hi.
delicate fact-finding mission
Mr.. Tshombe has barred U. N
troops from his province say.
ing they are not needed.
Evacuation Demanded
Mr.. Gizenga demanded Bel.
gium evacuate all her troop,
from the former colony which
was granted independence june
30. He told Mr.. Ham.
marskjold:
THE people of the Congo dc
not understand that we. against
whom an aggression has beer
committed, we who are in oul
land. we who have made al
appeal to international armet
forces. are Systematically ant
methodically disarmed whil'
the aggressors. the Belgians
who are here in a conquered
country, still have their arm
and their power Of death ane
are simply being asked to re-
group in certain parts OF oul
Congo which some dare cal
Belgian bases"
Mr.. Gizenga was referring II
efforts of U. N. troops to dis
arm mutinous Congolese sol
diers. whose revolt against theil
white officers plunged the coun
try into turmoil.
The Soviet Union. meanwhile
kept up its attempt to max
propaganda capital out Of tn
Congo crisis, accusing tn
Western powers Of supporting
aggression in the Congo an,
warning again Russia woul,
take "resolute measures to re
buff the aggressors" If the al
legged aggression continued.
The statement. issue,
through the Soviet news agenc
Tass.. did not specify wha
measures the Russians nigh
take.
The new Soviet warning ais
accused western "aggressor
and their accomplices" of try
ing to strangle the Congo
economic life and starve II
people. It offered Ito conside
favorably the question
rendering the Congo extensiv
economic assistance with
view to creating normal con
ditions for the republics eco
nomic life"
Congo Premier Patrice Lu
mumba, winding up his aid
seeking visit to the Unite
States and Canada, spent tn
week end in New York. He wa
expected to confer again wit
u. N. officials, including An
drew E. Cordier, Mr.. Hammar
skjold's executive secretary.
Mr.. Lumumba leaves fc
home tomorrow but plans shoi
visits en- route to the capital
Of Tunisia, Morocco, Chan
and Guinea. However, he eS
poets to be in Leopoldvill
within a week, to meet M
Hammarskjold when he return
there after a trim To Snnt