The Congo: A Little Neighborliness

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...

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