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224. Memorandum of Conversation

ressure on both Adoula and Tshombe . The Belgians, Americans and British should find a reasonable settlement. It would be necessary to change the Loi Fondamentale to provide for a confederal not a unitary state. Britain had faced the same problem in Nigeria. If it had insisted on a unitary state there would have been trouble. [ 1½ lines of source text not declassified ] The only hope is a confederal one but it is hard to see how this can be brought about now. One side is bound to the Loi Fondamentale, the other side has all the money. Ambassador Ormsby Gore inquired whether Brussels was the ri…

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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	1962-04-28
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/d224
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v20/d224`

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224. Memorandum of Conversation. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1962. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v20/d224.