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339. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State

Congo, rather than serving to bring about unification, has in fact been serving to protect Tshombe , by UN refusing under pressure Western powers to take effective action itself and by denying to GOC means for doing so. As recent demarches from UAM, Nigeria and others indicate, this belief is now more and more widely shared among other Africans who are demanding insistently either that UN , with essential and promised cooperation of Western powers, exercise economic pressure necessary to bring Tshombe to terms, or that UN withdraw and GOC with African assistance take on job of reunification. S…

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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	1962-11-26
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/d339
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v20/d339`

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339. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1962. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v20/d339.