Behind the Congo Crisis

Brussels

Refugees are still arriving each day in Brussels from the Congo, many of them wounded and with horrible stories; of wives raped in front of their husbands, of ravished and mutilated girls, of emasculated men, burned dwellings; of intra-tribal warfare waged with all its brutalities, of countless robberies, of indignities, of a world turned upside down. They heatedly demand that Belgium continue to send soldiers to the Congo to protect the foreigners remaining there and the Christian natives who risked their lives to defend the whites. “We Colonials have been betrayed twice in a single generation” is their bitter cry, “and by our own government.” The man on the street agrees with the returnees that the King acceded to the wishes of the Congolese leaders with unnecessary speed at the Round Table conference in Brussels last January and February. Many believe the government may fall. They even talk of an end of the monarchy.

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Philippa Schuyler

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Refugees are still arriving each day in Brussels from the Congo, many of them wounded and with horrible stories; of wives raped in front of their husbands, of ravished and mutilated girls, of emasculated men, burned dwellings; of intra-tribal warfare waged with all its brutalities, of countless robberies, of indignities, of a world turned upside down. They heatedly demand that Belgium continue to send soldiers to the Congo to protect the foreigners remaining there and the Christian natives who risked their lives to defend the whites. “We Colonials have been betrayed twice in a single generation” is their bitter cry, “and by our own government.” The man on the street agrees with the returnees that the King acceded to the wishes of the Congolese leaders with unnecessary speed at the Round Table conference in Brussels last January and February. Many believe the government may fall. They even talk of an end of the monarchy.