Letters: Mar. 3, 1961

Death in the Congo

Sir:

Why all this commotion and sympathy about Lumumba? Naturally the Kremlin is upset; this was their stooge, and the foot in the door to communizing the Congo.

The heinous crime of the century, they call it. What about the Hungarian slaughter, the Americans murdered over the Barents Sea and Castro's atrocities?

J. J. DOOLAN JR.

Savannah, Ga.

Sir:

I have followed with resentment the continuous castigation of Lumumba until the payment in reward was made for his head. Unto his death he was "Lumumba the Man," and a "Man" cannot...

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