BI-WEEKKLY PROPAGANDA GUIDANCE

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• Publication Date: October 10, 1960
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NUNiBER 50
BATE: 10 October 1960
TABLE ?F' CONTENTS
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Trials of Leaders of Gusted Turkish
Regime Imrriinent
Patrice Lumumba
Voting Balance in UNGA -The New
1V~embers
22nd CPSU Ccngress
Hungarian Violations of the 1947 Peace
Treaty
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Immediately following the 27 May lo,6Q c?u~a by the military Committee of
National Unity in Turkey, led by General Cemal Gursel, a large number of
members of the ousted regime were arrested. They were assembled as soon as
possible and imprisoned on the small island of Yassi Ada on the Sea of Marmara
just outside Istanbul. Among those incarcerated were the President, Celal
Bayar, the Frime Minister, Adnan Menderes, the Cabinet, the Chief of Staff,
the Air Force chief, deputies, governors, mayors, and prefects. This was
probably the first time in history that the entire leadership of a regime was thus
imprisoned. The 38-man military Committee of National Unity quickly
established a facade of returning power to civilians, while promising to retire
from the forefront of the political scene and return to purely military duties as
soon as possible, .~ pred.ominately civilian government was nominated (headed by
Gursel, who is President, Prime Minister, and still head of the military junta),
and civilian commissions of eminent jurists and professors were set up nat only
to draw up a new constitution and electoral law, but also to prepare ~~.n
indictment of the Bayar-Menderes regime, which, by establishing its essential
illegality, would give legal justification for the revolutionary coup itself, It was
z~ade clear, at the same time, that there was to be no change in Turkey's foreign
policy. Lurid charges, undoubtedly inspired by the Gursel group, such as the one
that Menderesr police killed hundreds of students during the riots which preceded
the coup or that bodies had been ground up for fertilizer or hidden in
refrigerators, ne doubt represent gross exaggeration. Probably, however, the
I~~en~ieres regime was guilty of harsh repression of liberty (notably of the press),
and of waste, dishonesty, and of general political (particularly electoral)
shenanigans. The b~-year age limit for irnposinf the death penalty has been
removed, an action which seems to have ex-President Bayar (who is 74) for its
particular target. Respite its promises, however, the Gursel group has not
pinpointed the date of the elections, which after several postponements now
appear to be scheduled for the fall of 1961, neither a new constitution nor a revise
electoral law has been produced and the trials of the Yassi l~,da prisoners (for
which there has been heavy preparation, especially far coverage by the press)
have also been postponed more than once. There is a strong possibility, however,
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Patrice Lumumba, deposed Premier an:I IV.~iniste of National Defense of
the Republic c~' tZ~e (e;~-Del~,~ian) ~;c~ng vc~as born on 2 July 1925, in lsasai
Frovince. After primary ana secondary education, he went to work in
Stanleyvi.lle, where he had had his limited schooling, as a postal clerk. At the
age of 31 (only four years ago now) he was convicted of embezzlement and
sentence:l t~: two years in prison. He vras release' by royal decree a. year later
a3xc1 then shifted to the capital at Leopoldville, where he was employed in a
brewery. He rose quickly to the position of sales manager but was released in
.!~pril 1,59 because he ha~i been spending tea much time in political activity,
~alth~aY;gh there were rumr.~rs cf his lxaving embeazle.d in this position also. A
notorious demagogue, he has great energy and ability to sway the masses.
I-~~wever, he has earned the distrust of other Congolese leaders and (partly
because of his shifLgrs,nc' unscrupulous habits) has brought about a break in the
='~:ouvement Nationale ~ongolais. Upon Congo's becoming independent from
Lelgium on 30 June 1~b0, he was appointed Premier, while his chief rival
(Kas^,vt~bu) was made ~~'resiclent. It was not long ;before his erratic behavior
aro~;se;1 opposition and (after getting, in accordance with the Constitution, the
necessary Ministerial counter-signatures) K.asavubu dismissed Lumumba from
office, I~amumba has not accepted this and has managed to get what amoante~:l to
a vote of confidence by the Assembly. However, the confused situation was ma~'_e
even mc-~re confuse' by the fact that this vote was apparently not by a gxaorum.
Lumumba has been accused by many of his compatriots of being a Communist.
He denies this. However, until they were forced out of the country following t~xa
~ol~onel I~Yobutu cotila, the Communist bloc were providing increasing nrambers
of men and material(including transport aircraft and Soviet crews). F~ letter
from the Lumumba regime to the USSR dated 15 August 19bC asked for troops,
transport aircraft, transport trucks, weapons, communications eq~aipmen t, ar.~'.
foo~1 supplies. High Lumdrnba Cabinet posts were given to prominent pro-
Communists such as lintoine Gizenga, Vice ~ remier, and r/iadame Andree
Dlouin, Chief cf 1~rotocol, who was Gizenga's mistress and at one time had been
mistress of F'r~sident Sekou 7'oure of Guinea. .Even after they were forced out
of the country, the u:zechs reportedly offered to provi~_ie Lumumba with further
supplies of arms, anc? there are indications of their continuer' clandestine
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With the ac_rr3ission of Nigeria, the UN will have acqu~ed seventeen new
members during the currer_t session, sixteen of which are African (the
seventeenth is Cyprus) and all of which are former colonies, dependencies or
trust territories of Britain (2), France (13), Belgium (1) an;' Italy (1}, This _
raises l,frican membership to twenty-five, just over 25%u of the total member-
ship. Western European membership now constitutes twenty-three, Latin r''~merica
twenty, Near Eastern six, .F