With Patrice Lumumba safely in jail, quieter times might presumably be expected in the Congo. Not so. To Military Boss Colonel Joseph Mobutu's headquarters came an alarming telegram from Stanleyville: DEMAND IMMEDIATE LIBERATION PRIME MINISTER LUMUMBA . . .
IF NOT WILL ARREST ALL BELGIANS IN EASTERN PROVINCE AND BEGIN BY CUT TING OFF HEADS OF SOME OF THEM.
The signature on the head-chopping telegram was that of Bernard Salumu, a moody, fast-talking 31-year-old Communist sympathizer who once had been Lumumba's private secretary, now found himself in complete control of Eastern Province,...
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