U.N. warning takes EFFECT

Press, Volume C, Issue 29452, 2 March 1961, Page 15

U.N. warning takes EFFECT

Congo Crisis Appears To Have Passed

(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, March 1. A strong warning from the United Nations that it had the military strength to impose peace on the Congo appeared to haxe been effective, the Leopoldville correspondent of The Times” said today. Secretary-General, Mr Hammarskjold, yesterday told President Joseph Kasavubu that he had given orders to the United Nations command in the Congo in line with last weeks Security Council resolution empowering the use of force to prevent civil war. T’ 1 . e A'* mes correspondent said the Congo story was like the British weather if you did not like it now, just wait a bit.

Did Mr Antoine Glzanga’s oops from Stanleyville look if they were going to overin General Joseph Mobutu's en without a shot being d? the correspondent asked Now they have disappeared ,-hwards from Luluabourg. •r.g their commander unUnited Nations protection the town once more in al” hands. Did the Communist couns last week recognise the ■ nleyville regime as the only gal Government of the nngo? Now somebody had expelled

all the Communist journalists there because their countries did not help Mr Gizenga. Did the United Nations seem on Monday on the verge of battle with President Kasavubu’s forces? Now the alarms have blown over, the Government has appealed for discipline and order and is launching an inquiry into some of the week-end's incidents. Leopoldville is calm. "Memories are short, the weather is hot, tragedy slides easily into farce and hack ag ! in and passions grow blunter day by day,” said the correspondent.