Congo: Stillness over Katanga

By common agreement, the Congo is the U.N.'s greatest opportunity to establish its competence in the creation of a new order in a confused world. But some times there is serious question as to what kind of order the U.N.'s Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold proposes to create. Last week, under the authority of a Security Council resolution calling for the removal of all Belgian officers from the Congo, U.N. troops staged an extraordinary operation.

At dawn, blue-helmeted U.N. troops swarmed into action at Elisabethville, capital of the Congo's breakaway Katanga province. Without any warning to the Katangans, platoons of Indians seized...

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