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260. Memorandum of Conversation

pendence. The base of the pyramid of people who had been trained was large, but there simply had not been time to build up a sufficient group of upper-level personnel. There were more Congolese in secondary institutions, for example, than there were Nigerians. The UN could not find the proper people to fill technical jobs in the Congo but wanted to displace Belgians. Foreign Minister Wigny said he wondered if the Secretary General, in fact, wished to establish a UN trusteeship over the Congo. He thought this would be a dangerous precedent for Africans generally. He also referred to the Secreta…