U.N. CONGO FORCE

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29388, 15 December 1960, Page 17

U.N. CONGO FORCE

Change Urged In Command (Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 14. President Kwame Nkrumah, of Ghana, has called for a change in the military leadership of the United Nations forces in the Congo in a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General. Mr Dag Hammarskjold. In a letter, dated December 10. which was issued by the Ghana Embassy, the Ghanaian leader urged the change because, he said, the present command was ineffect've and the United Nations was being “dictated to and pushed around by Mobutu’s band which is actively maintained by the Belgians and other foreign agents.” President Nkrumah also said he was distressed by the fact that British Royal Air Force aircraft flying in support of the Ghana contingent now in Kasai Province, had not been allowed to land at Leopoldville. “Surely the whole authority and purpose of United Nations efforts to restore peace in the Congo cannot be allowed to suffer from the irresponsible acts, of individuals,” he said. President Nkrumah said the world had today been confused by the “agents of imperialism into accepting the thesis that the tragedy of the Congo was essentially a domestic dispute between rival leaders.”