Evening star., 1961-09-24


matters.
1t is interesting to con-
template in what direction
our own history would have
developed If there had been a
United Nations organization
in the period of our forma-
ton. A parallel is present
between certain factors in
the formation of our country
from its original 13 colonies
and the Congo. After join
ing together to fight and win
independence the colonies
through q trying process set
up a central government un-
der q Constitution. Each Of
the colonies was entirely free
to enter the Union under the
Constitution or to remain in
dependent. Each Of the 13
colonies voluntarily joined
the Union as a State. Not a
single colony was forced to
enter the Union. Should at
that time, for instance,
Rhode Island have refused to
join the Union, would we have
wanted a United Nations
military to do battle with
Rhode Island to force 1t to
join the Union? Would we
have accepted such reason
that to prevent a civil war
this conquest was undertak-
en-? Would the people Of
Rhode Island ever forget that
they were forced into the
Union by outsiders?
The former Belgian Congo
was made up of provinces.
At the time when Belgium
gave independence to the
Congo, the province of Ka-
tanga did not elect to join
into a centralized form Of
government but wanted to
have independent status.
While 1t would have been de-
sirable to have a stable gov
ernment in the Congo and to
include all the provinces, the
organization Of such a gov
ernment is an internal mat
ter. The fact that the Congo
was not prepared to organize
and form q responsible gov
ernment was unfortunate.
Every form Of assistance
should have been and was
rendered through the United
Nations. Every effort to keep
sections of the Congo free of
foreign involvement was war
ranted. However, 1t Is the
right for any section Of a
country to secede from its
main government If its peo-
pie so desire and have the
strength to carry out such
secession. If Katanga did
not desire to join a central
government and in so doing
was exercising its own
strength free from outside
support. then such secession
can only be an internal af-
fair of the Congo and be re-
solved only by the people Of
the Congo.
A. E. TOmkin.
Incredibly-like children
Americans CThe Washington
Star included - editorial
9/20/6D are continually
shocked" at Russian con-
duct.
With tons Of evidence to
support their barbarisms and
their materialism-we can
not seem to understand that
the Russians are deadly ser
ious.
They have no heart for in
dividual man Or, for a free
and progressive civilization
and this enemy Of The
American Way leaves no
doubt as to where he stands!
The Russian Zorin was their
figurehead at the recent U.N.
memorial.
BY continuing to accept
these barbaric insults, the
U.SA. is moving backward
instead of forward. BY de-
ferring to the United Nations
Organization-free men have
relinquished their individual
sovereignty and allegiance to
God. The game OF semantics
calls it an organization to in
sure peace" while its record
shows it creates chaos and
war-as in the recent Congo
tragedy.
What has this long expert
ment in interventionisrn ac-
compliShed? Has the United
Nations given us collective
security or collective inSecur-
ity? Even Senator Fulbright
has said a.. it is q common
wealth Of fear kept going by
a precarious balance of terror,