Root Fallacy

A fortnight ago I examined our Congo predicament. The crisis of the UN-U.S. attack on Katanga revealed that our policy had led to a) a self-defeating local action, and b) a split with our NATO allies and the Western community. This Katanga action was concurrent with our action (granting a $133 million credit) toward Ghana, and our lack of action toward the Gizenga regime in Congo’s Oriental Province and toward Nehru’s seizure of Goa. These pairs (Katanga-Oriental, Ghana-Goa) fitted into a pattern that can be traced at least as far back as the Hungary-Suez crisis of November 1956.

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A fortnight ago I examined our Congo predicament. The crisis of the UN-U.S. attack on Katanga revealed that our policy had led to a) a self-defeating local action, and b) a split with our NATO allies and the Western community. This Katanga action was concurrent with our action (granting a $133 million credit) toward Ghana, and our lack of action toward the Gizenga regime in Congo’s Oriental Province and toward Nehru’s seizure of Goa. These pairs (Katanga-Oriental, Ghana-Goa) fitted into a pattern that can be traced at least as far back as the Hungary-Suez crisis of November 1956.

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