Across Stanley Pool chugged the river ferry Congolia No. 10. At the "beach," the wooden customs shed on the Leopoldville side of the river, who should step ashore but Charles-Daniel Ganao, Foreign Minister of the radical leftist Brazzaville Congo regime. At the beach to welcome him were the Congo's Interior Minister Victor Nendaka and a knot of young
Congolese bearing signs such as "Vive le Congo Brazzaville" and "Down with Neo-Colonialism."
Strange goings-on indeed for two old enemies. The two Congos have been bitterly divided by ideology, with Leopoldville firmly pro-West and...