MOSCOW CLAIMS VICTORY IN THE CONGO

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• Publication Date: September 13, 1967
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went had )been adopted, I would have Nations with Gizenga followers; that Congo la, rapidly slipping under complete
supported the wilderness bill. Since It Adoula has further agreed to take cer- Communist control If the Congo, does w?a.s defeated, I voted against the bill. tain unspecified measures against Col; go Co miatiat,? It will not .be because of
Much as I wish to support nserva- onel Mobutu, and that Gizengs is now ' Soviet, strength or because`t to Congo
lion meansuree, the greatest rustics demanding the removal from the array lose people want communism: it will be
issue before us is the qu of con- of all soldiers and omcers who are againstl?, because of U.N. policy in. the Congo
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serving the Constitution the United the unity of the ~aw.rtti,F; and, that f3L- ` because of the perverse folly that in ,
States. In the interes f that kind of wags. in a telegram to Adonis had called: duces, us to support this policy with?ou d
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conservation, I op the wilderness for an end to the separatist activity in prestige and our money.
bill, in tpe form in ich it passed the Katanga, to preserve the territorial unity The words "perverse folly" are strop
Senate. I hope Members of the of the Republic withi nthe framework words, but I have used them with alld
House of R.epre tatives will give the of the policy of Patrice LumUmbsa, ous[,.'llberation.: We` are payintt more:,th
most careful a ntion to this constitu- adherence to which we have declared. F half of the $100 million that the' United
tionai questio and will paw a bill which The article boasted that "the decision' Nations has allready budgeted or spent
will preserv both the wilderness areas of the Parliament commits the new gov- In the Congo. Could there be` any folly `:
and the tional role of the Congress, ernment to carry out all decisions made greater or more perverse than financin
The I G PRESIDENT pro tom- , earlier by the Lumumba government, the destruction of our friends and +the,,
pore. lu there further morning business? and factually cancels as illegal the de_ victory of our enemies?
If there is no further morning. business, cisiona of the so-called Ilex government." Mr. President, I ask unanimous con
morning business is closed.
Mr. President, in the light of this in- sent to Insert into the Rscosa at the
formation. I believe the situation in the `conclusion of my remarks the transla-
MOSCOW CLAIMS VICTORY IN THE Congo Is even graver than I have pre- tiOn of the article entitled "The De r
viously described it. I believe that unless velopment of the Events in Congo," by,
CONGO the United States can use its influence E. Prlmakov, which appeared is New .s.
Mr. DODD. Mr. President, last Fri- to reverse United Nations policy, or else Times, No. 37, September 8, 11+51. I also
day, I rose in the Senate to warn that to bring about F. stay in the execution of ask unanimous consent to have inserted
United Nations policy In the Congo, if it this policy until there has been time for the text of my letter transmitting this
were not quickly reversed, would inevit- a reappraisal of the entire situation, the trat nsla to President Kennedy.
ably lead to a complete Communist take- Congo, within a matter of months. will The ACTING PRESIDENT pro ter
over in that country, be irrevocably lost to the free world and Pore. Without objection, It is so ordered.
On Monday, I submitted In the Senate to the Congolese people. (See exhibits 1 and 2.)
a resolution. calling for the establish- 17 there is anyone who still cherishes Mr. DODD. In the light of this article
ment of a select committee of the Senate illusions about the possibility of achiev- in New Times. Mr. President, I again
to Investigate the Congo situation. Ing a middle-of-the-road solution express the hope that it will be possible Ar,
Simultaneously, I sent to Ambassador through the coalition government which for the Senate, before Congress adjourns,
Stevenson a telegram urging him to in- the U.N. has fostered and to which it is to, P on the resolution I presented
sist that the. U.N. suspend all action now giving all-out support. I would urge Monday calling for the establishment of
against the government of President them to read the article in the Moscow a select esoamit$ee an the. Congo.
Tshombe, of Katsnga, and against white New Times I think this matter is so? urgent that,
officers and white advisers serving wader There is no talk in this article about unless some action of this kind is taken,
that government. any middle-of-the-road solution or of the Conga will Inevitably become
Only hours after I had submitted my compromise with the non-Communists. another part of the world Communist
resolution on Monday, there came to my The language of the article. on the con- bloc.
attention an article, in the omcial Soviet trary. is completely uncompromising. It :This would be a great tragedy, It
periodical New Times, which clsimr a speaks of nothing less than total victory would be another in the list of tragedies
complete vic for the pro-Soviet side and of the elimination of all those who that have been occurring and recurring
in the Congo paints a far blacker oppose the institution of a Khrushchev- with a frequency that is di>ncult to ex
picture than I, elf, did on the basis of Gizenga new order in the Congo. Plain or even to understand,
the info:rmati available to me Mon, Because I considered this article In the ?' We have been pouring out of our sub
day morning. ; Moscow New Times to be of such grave st&nm billions,, of dollars to give comfort
The article 0 which I refer appeared significance, I forwarded a translation and aid to our sworn enemy. If there is
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in the Russian language edition of the to President Kennedy, as soon as it be- any objective historian left to write about
Moscow New Times, for September 8, came available to me Monday afternoon. our times, and if his writings are pre-
which arrived in this country only Mon- The press has hinted in the past that Served for posterity, I am confident that,
day morning.: The English language the administration was not altogether when he reviews what we have been do
version of New Times should reach this happy about United Nations. policy In
? king over the last 8 or 9 years, he will have
country within the next week. Mean- the Congo. In my wire to Ambassador to say we were, indeed, strange people ,
while, because I consider the article of Stevenson. I expressed the hope that and that we were guilty of the greatest
such critical importance, I wish to pre- present U.N. Policy in that unhappy fany.
sent a translatiion of the text at the con- country did not enjoy the sanction and I have told my colleagues in the Sen-
elusion of my remarks. To the best of approval of the United States. For my ate within the last few weeks of the fact
my knowledg this will be the first own part. I simply cannot believe that that the World Bank, in which we have
translation available in the English lan- President Kennedy has been provided membership, Only a few weeks before
guage. with all the facts on this tortured sitni-- the election In British Guiana, loaned
The article on the Congo in the Mos- tion, the Communist, Cheddi dagan, $1,250,-
cow New Times points out that the mean- Mr. President, the situation in the 000 Jagan Came Co Washington and
hers of political parties of the national Congo can be redeemed. If the Kremlin personally negotiated that loan. He
bloc which was headed by Patrice Lu- had to, act in its own right and with its went back to British Guiana figuratively
mumba have 23 seats in this government, own resources in the Congo, it would be waving the check in the face of the peo-
or an absolute majority; that '-the de- completely helpless because of the thou- pie of British Guiana.
cision of the Parliament permits the new sands of miles that separate it from the Jagu. Is s. Communist. But wa.s
government to carry out all decisions African heartland. Geographically and able to say to these people, who ad to
made earlier by the Lnmumba govern.. logistically the Congo belongs to our make a decision with respect him
ment; that Prime Minister Cyriile Adoula sphere of operations, not the Soviet and the other two candidates, "how you
has accepted the request of vice Premier sphere. wee what the United states thinks. I
Gizenga to appoint Gent. Victor Lunt~tgia These 1 no reason why the Congo went to Washington and came back
as Chief of the. United Congolese Army, should ga Ceaaiaumlet, There Is every with. $1.250.000.?. As won. the election
and to fllll the position of Minister of season, why it should remain- free. But by only three seats. But our represent-
Defense and representative to the United the dismal fast nevertheless is that the alive on the World Bank approved that
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