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55. Memorandum of Conversation

he wealth of the Congo and could get away with it. General Alexander, who commanded the Ghanaian troops, said that if the soldiers were given a chance they could work things out. Dayal was always interfering. Hammarskjöld was sending a contingent of Nigerian police to Matadi. This was a useful move. According to Lord Home ’s latest information, Hammarskjöld had a three-step plan: first, to dispatch the police; secondly, to try to bring the Congolese leaders together; and thirdly, to deal with Katanga. Katanga was the most difficult problem. The Secretary remarked that the big problem was that …

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1961-04-04
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XX, Congo Crisis
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v20/d55
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55. Memorandum of Conversation. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v20/d55.