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Gromyko Ready to Open
New Debate on Congo

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Mar. 20 (AP)-SoViet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko was
expected to open q new debate
on the Congo today in the
United Nations General Assem-
bly, with charges that Belgium,
Secretary General Dag HAM
marskjold and Congolese PreSi-
dent Joseph Kasavubu are con-
spring to dismember the chaotic
central African territory.
Mr.. Gromyko's newest tar
get was the decision by Mr..
KaSavubu and all other Congo
political leaders except Soviet
backed Antoine Gizenga to Junk
the unavoidable federal govern
ment plan left by Belgium and
replace it with a confederation
of semi-independent states.
Some observers expected Mr..
Gromyko would pick up Ghana
President Kwame Nkrumah'S
argument that Mr.. KaSavubu,
in accepting the presidency of
the proposed confederation, had
quit the presidency Of the ex-
piring republic and had lost
his right to U. N. recognition
as the Congo's chief Of state.
DayaI May Continue
Mr.. Hammarskjold, mean
while, was reported to have
asked Rajeshwar Dayal of India
to continue as head of the U. N.
operation in the Congo despite
the KaSavubu governments
repeated demands that he be
recalled. Mr.. Kasavubu accused
Mr.. Dayal Of bias toward the
late Patrice Lumumba and
toward Mr.. Gizenga after Mr..
Lumumba'S death.
New York Herald Tribune
Correspondent Marguerite Hig-
gins reported from Leopoldville
yesterday that, according to
high sources, Mr.. Hammar-
skiold is continuing Mr.. Dayal
in the Congo post because the
Secretary General fears to
offend DayaI's countryman and
boss, Prime Minister Nehru Of
India"
Miss Higgins reported that
"the high handedness, arro-
gance, even contempt with
which Dayal treated the
Kasavubu regime would give
ground for fury on the part
Of any government" She added
that Mr.. Dayaps temporary re-
placement, Mekki Abbas of the
Sudan, has done much to ease
the explosive situation created
by Dayal's aloofness from the
Congo's leaders" Mr.. Dayal Is
now at U. N. headquarters re-
porting on the Congo opera
ton.
CeylOn Pledges Troops
Mr.. Hammarskjold was said
to have got Ceylon's promise
of 800 to 1000 troops for the
U. N. force in the Congo which,
with the combat battalion now
being sent by India, would build
the depleted force to a strength
of more than 10000 men. The
Secretary General hopes to in
crease the force to q total Of
$4,000 troops.
Mr.. Hammarskjold also
scheduled a meeting today
with his advisory Congo COM
mittee to choose commis-
sion Of jurists to investigate
the death Of Mr.. Lumumba,
slain in Katanga Province after
Mr.. Kasavubu sent him there
as q prisoner last January. The
Secretary General had told the
committee he wanted investi-
gators from Burma, Mexico and
two African countries.
The Security Council Or
dered the investigation in a
resolution February 81. The
Council also authorized the u.
N. to use force if necessary to
prevent civil war in the Congo
and urged the immediate with
drawal of Belgian and other
non-U. N. foreign military and
political personnel.
Mr.. Hammarskjold since has
written Belgium, Mr.. Kasavubu
and Katanga Provincial Presi-
dent Noise Tshombe about the
Belgian personnel. Tomorrow
he is sending Taieb Sahbani of
Tunisia to Brussels and Rich
ard Gardiner and Francis
Nwokedi of Nigeria to Leopold
vile to work on the matter.
Use Of Advisers Defended
Belgium has agreed to pull
Belgian military men out Of
the Congo who are subject to
military service back home.
But she has denied she has any
authority over others and has
insisted that the Congolese
have a right to hire whatever
political advisers they like.
Mr.. Kasavubu and Mr.. Tshom-
be have ignored Mr.. Ham
marskjold's messages on the
subject.
Reports from the Congo said
the U. N. force and Mr.. Gizen-
gas Stanleyville regime had