Congo: The Untold Story

Our Congo policy is now clearly at an impasse, and we seem to be headed in the direction of another round of bloodletting. The time has come to speak out and to tell the American people the incredible story of how and where our Congo policy went off the tracks.

In the Congo situation to date, we have sought to use the UN not as an essential vehicle of our foreign policy, which it is, but as a substitute for a foreign policy of our own, which it is not. We have supported the dangerous precedent of using military forces under UN command for the purpose of bringing about the reunification of the Congo or, to be more exact, for the purpose of forcing the submission of the Province of Katanga to the Central Government in Leopoldville.

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Thomas J. Dodd

Our Congo policy is now clearly at an impasse, and we seem to be headed in the direction of another round of bloodletting. The time has come to speak out and to tell the American people the incredible story of how and where our Congo policy went off the tracks.

In the Congo situation to date, we have sought to use the UN not as an essential vehicle of our foreign policy, which it is, but as a substitute for a foreign policy of our own, which it is not. We have supported the dangerous precedent of using military forces under UN command for the purpose of bringing about the reunification of the Congo or, to be more exact, for the purpose of forcing the submission of the Province of Katanga to the Central Government in Leopoldville.