THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1981.
NEW BOOK STIRS CONTROVERSY IN BRITISH PRESS
Belgium accused intentions NAZI COLLABORATORS
in Congo
London, Jan. 23.
Belgium's sudden decision to grant inde- pendence to the Congo last year looks, like "a gesture with concealed' inten- tions" in the light of subsequent events, according to a book on the Congolese crisis published in Britain today. "Agony Of The Congo" by Professor Ritchie Calder, who made a quick trip to the Congo in October for the United Nations, has caused a small controversy in British newspapers.
Frutenor Calder, B regular in contributor
to
the
H
left-wing Frankly
slates, protuce he this book
is pre-
weekly Now Statesmen, begins haficed, i ant on the side of his book with an outline of the United Natio..." events leading up to the sudden
handover of jarkey last July.
He states in the gin of subsequent
this look events like a gestare with concealed intentions.
INDISPENSABLE "Belgian officers were stil! Ini control of the Force Publique. The Belgian network of inter- locking business still dominated The economy of the country, and they were sure that the Congolese would quickly and that their administrators and profess.cnal and techntral workers were indispensable."
Professor Calder Continues "Under colonial rule every kay got had been in Belgian hand, Nct a single Congolese had been trained for any position at ras sponsibility.
There were only 17 graduates in the whole country and not d sangle Congolese darte,"
MIXED FEELING
The "Agony
of The Congo" una miset feeling in the 191- tish přepti.
TM liberal Manchester Guardian
independent Unserver welcomed 1
Me Gaviar Young of the Observer wrote “It is difficult to ser huw without having read lily book, anyone would claim to understand the Congo. today."
The conservative Sunday Times criticised it as income- plete, while the Daily Telegraph attacked it.
Mr Douglas Brown, a Tele- graph correspondent recently in the Congo, declared "Intended as a case for the defence, the
actuadly displays the essential Infreness of the U.N. position."
He said many of the UN achievements existed only on paper, citing the unsuccessful He lists as "trus things" campaign to prevent famine, the alleged disappearance of the He charged that Professor Congo's gold reserve, and the Calder was hypnotised by the blocking by Belgian banks of letters “U.N."--Rruter. funds for Congolese public ser- Vicus-all well in advance of independence.
But he says: the Belgians had not foreseen the mutiny of the Force Publique, nor did thes envisage that the Congolese would call in not the Belgians to run shu couyry's hut the United Nations,
services,
AND SS IN CONGO
Former
Brussels. Jan. 23.
Nual collaborators and 88 men are reported to be among Belgian TC- crults for the army of Mr Autoluo Gizenga in the Congo'n
vince, a
Orientale I*TD- Belgian Govern. ment spokesman said to- day.
He told Bruter the Govern- ment disapproved of the recruiting drive now being made here by various Congolese agents and had ordered a Judicial inquiry into it,
IL had діна ordered
"Biorough Investigations"
by various ministries and local police.
The spokesman sold that according to reporix reach- Tig Brummels the recruit. ment drive was not only for the army of President Maise Tihotube
Katanga. "Judging by the same IC- poria. these mercenaries comprise a mixture of ed. venturers And idealists from various European countries," the spokesman maid.
He drew a parallel between the present drive and re- cruitment for the Spanish Civil War.-Reuter.
South African U.S. CARRIER
shooting
inquiry finding
Capetown, Jan. 23.
A South African judge today found that the African crowd at Sharpevilla on March 21, when polico firing killed 69 and wound- ed another 180, could not be regarded as armed and made по organized at- tempt to attack the police. But Mr. Justice P. J. Weiscis said in als report presented to Parliament today, that he had no doubt the pollee thought their ves were in danger immediate- ly before the shooting, when the crowd became noisy and pressed forward.
CATCHES FIRE
Athens, Jan. 23,
Fire broke out below decks on the giant Amorican air- craft carriar Saratoga at sca today, killing sovon officers and men.
Twenty-three others were in- jured, but only one of them seriously.
The fire broke out in an en- gineering compartment, as the sailing toward Saratoga was Athens at the end of a patrol m the Easter Mediterranean withi the U.S. Gin Fleet.
Rear-Admiral David Mac-
cf the t Fleet's Carrler Task Donald, ecenmander
Force 00, whose Bagship is the Saratoga, issued this statement after the ship's arrival at Athens under its own, power:
Strike ends in considered his task was mereis Sea today the aircraft
New York
New York. Jan, 23.
Mr Justice Wessels gaid he
to report on the facts after heat-} log the evidenco.
UNREASONABLE
He said it would be most un- A strike by New York tugmen reasonable for the 0:1c-mRN Professor Calder's indetment and ferry crews which spread commission of inquiry to make of Belgian rule dates back 70.1 the raways and endangered | Andings concerning liability or years to when the Congo was, the city's food supplies ended responsibility of the police or the personal property of Kind today after intervention by Mr Africans involved in the Sharpe Lupold XL
Arthur Goldberg. tho new ville incident. "This rule was ruthless. No Secretary of Labour, one will ever knew how much!
*The Judge also concluded be made out of the Congo," hei News of the settlement of the that he was not called on to fortnight of dispute was an- make any parileulor recom-
Saici.
"White cruising in the Jonian
carrler Suratoga experienced a ruptured ail line in machinery space. resulting in a serious fire which was fought for two hours be- fore being controlled.
"It caused very heavy and dense smotic resulting in the asphyxiation of four officers and three enlisted men, n total of seven fatalities, and other In- Juries of a less serious nature.” CONSTELLATION FIRE
The carrier, among the U.S. Navy's largest and a sister ship
The bulk of the professor's nounred by Governor Nelson mendation or suggest that any 160-mge book deals with the Rockefeller of New York after action be taken against anyone of the Constellation which efforts of Ah United Nations medators had pent the night) as a result of the incident, caught fire while being fitted tea to combat the chaos of - in meetings with both the mea day.
and the cumployers-Reuter.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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1 No cop it play! (6)
6 Sweet girl7 (5)
8 Even when new it's worn,
(4)
9 Did not carry on. (4)
11 One-time broad indleator.
(5)
12 Refused to work. (0)
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1 Symbol of Armness, strange-
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ly enough. (4)
2 One-sidedness. (4)
The
out at the Brooklyn navy yard a month ago, arrived tonight at nearby Palerun Bay.
Fifty workmen were killed in the tragedy on the Constella- tlos on December 19.
report dealt with two lines of evidence—ürst that a 20,000 crowd of non-white pass demonstrators which gathered before Sharpeville police station who at no Ame hostile; and A U.S. Navy spokesman at sendly pollee evidence that Naples, Italy, said the fire broke)
they were forced to fire to out in the very early hours as!
ward off an attack.-AP.
Boys will play where war chiefs
plotted
Botley, Jan. 23.
A wartime mooting place for allied leaders plan- ning the D-day assault will soon be used as a YMCA parkland for comping and canoeing.
In the post war years it has been a Naval shore training establishment.
the Saratoga was steaming 10-1 ward Athens after manoeuvres with the U.S. 6th Fleat in the Eastern Mediterranean.--AP.
Russian fiancee jailed
Paris, Jan. 23. Georges Nivat, a 25-year- old French student whose flancee is in a Russian jali, was today hiding in Paris refusing to meet case mis- reporters in
any- representation of thing he said might harm her.
His fiancee, Irina, ta the 22- year-old daughter of Olga Ivin. kaya, close friend of the late Bovici writer Boris Pasternak Since 1948 about 50 youths and the woman who is said to have been the model for the heroine of his controversial novel "Dr Zhivago."
3 All the time in the world, have been trained each year at
(4)
4 Dring down. (0)
5 Providing support. (7)
8 lgh rooms, (7)
1 Western tille.' (7)
purposely or
14 Pull the trigger, (1)
10 Recorded musically? (5)
10 Colour
18 Not in company. (5)
dentally. (5)
10 Often eat on. (4)
24 Nearer senlilty? (5)
25 Physicking. (6)
accl-
13 Industrial depute. (4, 3)
"Warfleet," the establishment at Foirthrone Manor, for curcers in
of dark
Jackie lifts her skirts
Jacqueline Kennedy Hfis the skirt of her inauguration gala gown on January 19 as she and her husband, President- elect John F. Kennedy, leave Georgetown home, Washing- Lon, en route to attend the inaugural concert in blinding snowplorzi,—AP photo.
ATTACKED BY RHINO
John Wayne,
Wayne, Elsa Martinelli escape death
Dar es Salaam, Jan. 23. American film star John Wayne, Italian actress Elsa Martinelli and two other film stars nar- rowly escaped serious injury and possibly death when they were attacked in an open truck by a 6,000-lb rhinoceros during the film- ing of a wild life adventure film in Tangan- yika over the weekend, it was announced here today.
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JOHN WAYNE
1,000 SHIP REPAIRERS TO BE LAID OFF
Liverpool, Jan. 23.
the Royal and Merchant Navics. Irina and her mother Have An estimated 1,000 ship
alleged
been charged with In 1944. Winston Churchill, General Eisenhower and Field legal, dealings in foreign cur- Western Press no- Marshal
rency and Montgomery zeveral times at the Marior to ports said both have been im
prisoned.
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20 In that seventh heaven? (0) 14 He established the business. discuss plans for D-day-UPI.
20 Watched closely, (4)
27 Not loquacious. (5)
20 Greybeard, (0)
(7)
15 Game controller. (7).
17 Monstrous Axures, (b)
10 Dodged the column? (0)
21 Bustle. (4)
22 Grand opera singer. (4)
23 No longer young. (4)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Butter, 4 Crush,
Teenage pacifists
Nivac's parents fold. reperters today: "Our son la deeply dis- tressed by the fate of his lanceo Irina and of her mother." They added he was "consulting some In friends on the situation" Paris.
repairers will be stood off hore this wook.
This results from an official strike of 1,200 fitters in the River Mersey shipyards.
The strikers, members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, walked out after talks an a £1 per week pay Increase broke down.
Already 000 men have been
New York, Jan. 23. Nivat, who is studying Rus paid off as a result of the strike, Four fecrgy pacifists wore sian, had planned to marry which Je holding up repairs on 7 Collar, 8 Offer, 10 Dare, 12 Aerodes, 16 Alive, 10 Iron, 17 arrested today for painting the Irina last August, they said, and 20 ships, and a spokesman for Otto, 10 At-one, 20 Thenish, 21 Salt, 23 Essay, 24 Trougly, 25 words Paanity, reality pring her to France. But he had the Morrey Repairers Assodin-; Aster, 20 Behead, Down: 1 Back-door, 2 Tolernte, 3 Eged, 5 morality”"" on a model atomic to leave Busslo when his visa Hon sold today another 400 will Refrains, 6 Stereo, 0 Teeth, 11 Elongate, 12 Avpel, 13 Tren-fallout shelfer in Cedarhurst.----| expired before the weddings- be laig off before the wook in nure, 14 Bnstched, 18 Thools, 22 True.
UFI.
Привет.
out-euter.
The other stars were Red Buttons and Valentin de Vargas. WRECKED
The rhino was thought to be zemtely roped for a scone in the Howard Hawks Ohn when shock off its boscH.
Instead ot changing the carpeen crows, who were com- piately
unprofected and
Ex- posed, the rhino charged the truck being used in the scene. After battering and wreelding the feraters, doors and the sides of the truck, the rhino charged away and disappeared into the bush.
Name of the film; "Hatari," the word for danger—AP,
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