THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1960
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dent Knsavubu or with the
deposed premier, Patrice Lu
mumba, or with a reconvened
Congolese parliament, Lu
mumba appears to still want
the Soviets back. Knsavubu
wants to keep them out, and
parliament is an unknown
quantity, in part, because
many of its members tear for
their lives.
What the United States
most hopes for is a workable
reconciliation of the conflict
ing Congolese personalities,
accepting the United Nations
as the sole Instrument of out
side aid.
In my Judgment, this will
not be achieved at all if Mr.
llnmmarskjold Is templed to
accept the advice of some of
his associates to make a deal
with Mr. Khrushchev that if
the U. N. would bring back
Lumumba, the Soviets, in re
turn, would halt their cam
paign to purge the secretary
general.
Some think that this would
A 5
bo a way to save the United
Nations. It would more likely
be a way to 'lose the United
Nations,
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Foreign affairs: i
In Leopoldville, in the em
battled Congo, the forces of
Colonel Joseph Mobutu, t h e
Congo STRONG MAN, attack
the diplomatic premises of the
Republic of Ghana - which
were guarded by U.N. troops.
. A rather bloody battle ensues.
Mobutu's men were gun
ning for Ghana's charge d'af
faires (a charge d'affaires is
' a diplomatic official some
what below the rank of am
bassador) who, Mobutu charg
es, was conspiring against Mo-
' butu and for Lumumba, who
in the Congo ruckus appears
to have been a playmate of
the communists.
The point is that Mobutu
won the battle and the U.N.
command had to agree to ex
pel the Ghanian official.
of $96,208 and expenditures
of $96,208. Which, it might
be added, amounts to a rigid
ly balanced budget.
Republican Candidate Elmo
Smith's campaign committees
report contributions of $89,
944 and expenditures of $84,
612. That could be cited as
a budget surplus. But . . .
Maurine won and Elmo lost!
Drummond
Reports
Roscoe Drummond reports on
the Washington scene in the ab
sence of Walter Lippmann.
QUESTIONS:
Who is right? Who is
wrong? Who's on our side?
who's against us?
It's all rather obscure. But
CUBA'S ambassador (rep
resenting the Castro govern
ment in the Congo) is against
Mobutu and his protege Kasa-
vubu, whom he blasts as "anti-African
colonial leaders and
tools of the imperialists."
That gives us a fairly de
pendable hint as to who is
on our side and who is on
the communist side. Anyway,
it's a mess.
LET'S get closer home.
In Oregon (as, of course,
' almost everywhere) a lot of
money was spent in the gen
eral election campaign that
closed at midnight on Nov. 7.
Oddly enough, the biggest ex
penditure was by the organ
izations opposing the initia
tive measure that proposed to
' ban billboards on freeways.
The Oregon Council of Out
door Advertising and the
tion jointly report contribu
tions of $107,967 and expen-
diturcs of $106,129. These or
ganizations led the campaign
to defeat the anti-billboard
measure.
rpHE campaign committees
" for Senator Maurine Neu
bergcr, the Democratic candi
date for U. S. senator from
Oregon, reported the second
highest totals - contributions
rVHE next largest campaign
expenditure was lor sec
retary of State Howell Ap
pling Jr., who defeated Mon
roe Sweetland (Appling is a
Republican and Sweetland is
a Democrat. Appling won.)
Sweetland s committee re
ports that it received $20,817
and spent $22,361. The Ap
pling committee reports that
it received $47,368 and spent
$48,383.
Both committees went into
the red.
A LOT of money? .
It certainly is-in Oregon,
at least.
It is bad?
I think not.
TN OREGON, candidates
have to report how much
they got, and where it came
from. As long as the people
know how much ts being
spent to get elected and
WHERE THE MONEY
COMES FROM, they ought to
be able to draw their own
conclusions. The law provides
that information.
But-
Campaign c o n t r ibutions
don't have to be reported un
til AFTER the election. By
that time, the water has all
gone over the dam. Which
means that AT THE TIME
OF CASTING THEIR VOTES
the people don't know how
much money was contributed,
AND BY WHOM, and how
much was spent. ,
It would be a lot belter if
campaign contributions AND
WHERE THEY CAME FROM
had to be reported publicly
BEFORE election day.
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THE STATE OF THE CONGO
Washington - Because other
news has been to the fore -the
campaign, the election, the
close vote, the desegregation
contest in Louisiana, rebellion
in South Vietnam and Guate
mala - it has almost looked
as though the Congo w
quieting down.
It isn't. It is almost impos
sible to overstate the uncer
tainties which now prevail
and which stretch as far ahead
as anyone can see.
The best the United Nations
has been able to do is arrest
somewhat the drift to chaos,
The talk at the U.N. and
in Washington is all about the
need of a "fresh start." But
there is almost total disagree
ment on how to start, where
to start, and with whom to
start.
In its effort to shield the
newly independent and frag
ile African nations from the
tentacles of the cold war-in
the course of which Premier
Khrushchev tried to blast Dag
Hammarskjold right out of
his chair as Secretary Gener
al - the United Nations has
in its lap the hardiest kind
of problem.
iyE MUST hope that the
" U. N. will succeed. At
stake is the safety of the other
new nations. At stake is the
functioning of the U. N. Itself.
But it will be along hard
struggle. The U. N. is faced
with this immensely difficult
task;
1. There is no -clearly legal
government in the Congo to
work with the U. N. It is often
literally impossible to locate
it. This government does not
have control of the country,
does not have the loyalty of
the army, and often can't find
its own ministries.
2. The U. N. can't be sure
of tiie loyalty of its own
forces in the Congo. Secretary
General Hammarskjold and
his chief representative in the
Congo, Rajeshwar Dayal, have
not been able to count on the
Ghana and Guinea troops to
follow U. N. directions. Con
sequently Mr. Hammarskjold
has had to pursue a tentative,
wavering course in order to
avoid something very near to
"civil war" within the U. N.
This has seriously weakened
his mission.
3. Political divisions pro-
vent the U. N. from carrying
out its assigned role freely
and firmly. The Soviet Union
wants to halt the U. N. from
doing anything in the Congo
so that Moscow can take over.
It Is hard for Mr. Hammar
skjold to steer a clear course
while Mr. K. is doing his best
to steer him off the course.
The new African nations
would like to be assigned by
the U. N. the full task of pro
tecting the Congo, but they
do not have the resources
to do the job and they are
themselves divided over
whom to recognize as the le
gitimate Congolese govern
ment.
In a word, what wc now
have in the Congo is an un
certain U. N. mission with
uncertain instructions trying
to work with a nearly non
existent government presid
ing over a disunited country
with no real control.
"THERE is wide agreemen
on the need for a fres
iart. There is wide disagrer
lent whether that fresh sta;
.ilyiuld be made with Presi
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