In the courtyards of the Czech and Soviet embassies in Léopoldville, documents burned by night, and workers nailed covers on big wooden crates. In the Red Chinese mission, clothes were hastily crammed into suitcases. Then Communism's Congo corps of diplomats, "technicians" and correspondents rolled in melancholy procession to the Leopoldville airport and there boarded Ilyushins for home, expelled on orders from the Congo's latest government. Snapped one Russian diplomat: "We'll be back." But at least for the moment, the Russians' chief ally in the Congo, demagogic Premier Patrice Lumumba, had lost his grip on powerand with him had crumbled the Russians'...
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