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177. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Congo

then have to be strengthened even more. The situation was very disquieting. For example, the Ethiopian troops had been running amok and shooting people. What was needed was kind of “pro consul” such as the British had established in last 5 years in Nigeria. Such official was responsible for establishing effective chain of command and seeing to it law and order were preserved. Ormsby Gore also spoke along foregoing lines and asked how long the US thought UN should stay on after danger of secession by Katanga had subsided. He thought it not possible for UN troops to stay on permanently to mainta…

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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	1961-12-28
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/d177
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v20/d177`

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177. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Congo. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v20/d177.