Evening star., 1960-07-18
Plea for Soviet Troops Threatened
If BeIqions Do Not Withdraw
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AoSOA uLlLlOuLlCcQ LLldC The So
Wet Union would be asked to
send In troops unless Belgium
withdrew her forces within
three days. The Belgians made
no move to comply. But West
ern officials were gravely con-
cerned over the development.
The Congolese minister
charged the U. N. force was not
competent to deal with the sit
uation.
(The U. N. Security Council,
prodded by the Soviet Union,
is expected to meet tomorrow
for q report on implementation
OF its resolution calling on
Belgium to withdraw its troops
from the Congo. The Belgians
had told the council they would
not pull back until the U. N.
force could protect the thou
sands of European settlers in
the former Belgian territory.
cat President Eisenhower'S
vacation headquarters at New
port, r. l., White House Press
Secretary JsmeS c. Hagerty
declined comment on the threat
to seek Russian troops. He said
whatever comment the United
States will have will be made
by Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge" chief OF the United
States delegation to the U. NJ.
AS Gen. Won Horn and his
staff landed at Leopoldville,
confusion reigned in the tenn
porary military headquarters
set up in the airport control
tower. No one was sure of the
task Of the newly arrived U. N.
forces from four African ma
tions.
Belgian paratroopers con-
ttnued to occupy Leopcldville
airport. They manned ap-
proaches to the airport, located
about IL miles east of the city,
and several points in the Eu-
ropean section of the capital.
TuniSians on Patrol
A handful of Tunisians pa
trolled Leopoldville's main
streets.
A 20-man unit from Ghana
was sent to Stanleyville, in ORR
entail Province, where Mr.. Lu-
mumba and President Joseph
Kasavubu have been for several
days.
Giant American Hercules
transport planes continued un-
loading steel-helmeted Moroc-
can infantrymen, most of them
from the United States-trained
crack Intervention battalion.
Ethiopian troops arrived by
Ethiopian Airline planes.
Plans repeatedly were being
made to send Moroccan troops
by train southwest to Matadi,
the Congo's chief port, which
is held by mutinous troops of
the Congo army. Sketchy re-
ports from Matadi indicated
all whites have abandoned the
city and economic activity
there had come to a complete
halt.
y. N. Undersecretary Ralph
j. Bunche telephoned Secretary
Dag Hammarskjold in New
York and informed him of the
critical turn of events caused
by the Congo's threat to call in
Soviet troops.
DR.. Bunche, Gen Won Horn
and other U. N. officials review
ed the deteriorating situation.
In Brussels. a government
spokesman said no official no.
tification Of the Congo's move
had been received. He said
Belgian troops are in the
Congo trying to save lives and
would remain as long as nee
essary.)
Gen. Henry T. Alexander,
British commander of Ghana's
army and head of its contri-
button to the U. N. force, said
the situation in the infant
African republic had "worsened
all over"
Gen. Alexander flew from
Leopoldville to picturesque
Stanleyville north of the capi-
tai yesterday to plant the u. N.
flag and confer with Premier
Lumumba and President Kasa-
vubu.
Leak Irks Premier
The disclosure that the Con-
golese leaders were planning to
invite the Soviet Union to send
troops came from Jacques Lum-
bala, one of nine secretaries of
state in the government and
leader Of the leftwing faction
in the regime.
Shocked by the leakage of
his governments strategy, Mr..
Lumumba upbraided Mr.. Lum-
bala before newSmen and told
him, II will take the most Sc
riouS measures against yoG."
The 34-year-old Premier did
not deny the plan. and it was
learned reliably his govern
ment has already drafted a
telegram for sending to Mos
COW.
The Soviet Union approved
the sending of a U. N. task
force to restore order in the
turbulent Congo but at the
same time condemned i'm
perialist intervention" in the
African nation. Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev last week
promised Congolese leaders
the necessary help which may
be required for the victory of
your just cause"
Congolese leaders blamed the
troubles in the country on the
presence of Belgian troops, who
showed no signs of withdraw
ing.
Even as Mr. IlImumha WAS