THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1961. 49 APPEAL! EMERGENCY Katanga is the Hungary of 1961! Amazement-Horror-Shame. These are the feelings with which the Ameri- that you intervene with your State Department SO that the United can public has read the past week's news from Katanga. States will stop furnishing planes which are transporting men and Somewhere along the line our government got off the track, and has ended up rushing in the wrong direction. The United States of America-the country materiel to bomb our cities and villages and slaughter our people. that set the world pattern of liberty by its own struggle for freedom and inde- Men, women and children have been killed and hospitals, schools, pendence-is supporting a ruthless attempt to defeat and smash the hopes of a brave people that seeks only the right to have a voice in deciding its own destiny. churches, missions and worker-camps have been bombed. All of these The political situation in the Congo is complicated. Few of us would pre- establishments have been bombed and destroyed by planes which tend to understand everything about it. But there is no disagreement by any ob- fly under the United Nations flag. Indian soldiers are indiscriminately server, analyst, or expert on certain basic facts about the government and killing civilians. We call on you for all possible help to carry on our regime that Moise Tshombe has established in Katanga. First, Katanga is the one with part of the former Belgian Congo that, in general, managed to preserve law, fight for freedom. Please help Katanga. President Moise Tshombe." order and decency. Second, Katanga, under President Tshombe, has kept its economy going. Third, Moise Tshombe is far and away the outstanding pro- The people of Elisabethville and Katanga are fundamentally in the same Hea Western and anti-Communist leader of the former Belgian Congo. Fourth, the positions as the people of Budapest and Hungary just five years ago. Then, the people of Katanga-black and white-support Tshombe overwhelmingly. United States stood aside. Today it is worse: our government, because of a se- Ten days ago the United Nations, without a trace of legal authority, ries of calamitous mistakes and misjudgments, is actively aiding the aggressor. launched a merciless military action against the people of Katanga. The In resisting the UN aggression, the people of Katanga are true Freedom United States government has supplied, and is supplying, the financial and lo- Fighters, fighting not only for their own liberties, but for the cause of world freedom. gistical support that makes this act of aggression possible. Our planes trans- ported Nehru's ferocious Gurkha mercenaries from India to Katanga. Our Faced with this appalling reversal of America's historic role as leader in planes have been ferrying the armored cars, weapons, and troops that have been mankind's enduring struggle for freedom, the undersigned American citizens sent in as reinforcements. Our money pays the bills. Our political support have undertaken the responsibility of organizing the American Committee For makes possible the entire enterprise. Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters. The Committee seeks to mobilize maxi- The people of Katanga believe they are fighting for freedom. They are be- mum public support for the Katangan fight for self-determination against ing overwhelmed by external powers which are bent on coercively subject- United Nations military aggression, and to protest the illegal UN operation ing them to a centralized regime which has proved its incapacity to govern, and against Katanga and the United States' support of this action. Through the Committee, the American public has the opportunity to express its rejection has failed to resist Communist penetration. and defiance of the United Nations' despotic policy and to give practical sup- In a bitter moment of the fighting, President Tshombe declared "The port to Katanga's fight for freedom. Americans are sending dollars and diplomats and planes but they are not send- ing soldiers, because they are too cowardly and decadent. Instead they hire the We call on our fellow-citizens to demand of President Kennedy, their skin and blood of the men of Nehru, who has plenty of them to sell." He added Senators and Representatives, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and UN Sec- "America is unaware that in perpetrating these crimes it is rendering the great- retary General U Thant: est service to the Soviet Union, which would draw an incommensurable profit 1. To stop immediately all United States support of the UN operation from these Katanga events. The Russians, if the UN operation succeeds, will in Katanga. have reduced a Western bastion, without having to spend one ruble or one man." 2. To halt all UN military operations in Katanga, and withdraw all UN In reply to the expression of sympathy sent by the American Commit- military forces from Katanga. tee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters, President Tshombe has cabled us: 3. To recognize Moise Tshombe and his government as legitimate "The Katangese people and myself are grateful to the American spokesment for Katanga in all further negotiations concerning the former Belgian Congo. Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters for your understand- 4. To make restitution for the human and material destruction brought ing and take note that you wish to help us. The first thing we ask is to Katanga by the UN military operations. American Committee For Aid To Katanga Freedom Fighters 79 Madison Ave. New York 16, N.Y. MUrray Hill 5-0190 CHAIRMAN Dr. Max Yergan EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE L. Brent Bozell William F. Buckley Jr. James Burnham Marvin Liebman Eugene Lyons Frank S. Meyer William A. Rusher George S. Schuyler SPONSORS Join with us, and Americans throughout the country- (Partial List) and, indeed, with men all over the world who believe in Holmes Alexander M. Stanton Evans Dr. Charles W. Lowry Archibald B. Roosevelt freedom-in supporting the people of Katanga in their Columnist Editor Foundation For Religious Action New York Lawrence Fertig Arthur G. McDowell Professor David Nelson Rowe fight against UN aggression. Send your contributions im- Dr. Ruth Alexander Editorial Columnist Economist, Columnist Council Against Communist Yale University mediately to THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR AID TO John M. Fisher Aggression Morrie Rvskind Tom Anderson Illinois Professor William M. McGovern Author, Columnist KATANGA FREEDOM FIGHTERS, to aid the men and Farm and Ranch Magazine Professor William Fleming Northwestern University Henry Salvatori women of Katanga in this grim and bitter struggle. C. D. Batchelor Ripon College Reverend Carl McIntire California Editorial Cartoonist Clifford Forster New Jersey Professor O. Glenn Saxon You will spend your Christmas in peace and freedom. Dr. Phillip Bard Attorney Martin B. McKneally Yale University Johns Hopkins University Devin A. Garrity Past Commander, American Legion Robert M. Schuchman Your help can make it possible for Katangans to do the Professor Anthony T. Bouscaren Publisher Professor Ralph S. March Young Americans For Freedom LeMoyne College University of Texas same by helping to put a speedy end to the fighting. Professor Mark Graubard Miss Phillipa Schuyler Honorable Spruille Braden Political Scientist Clarence E. Manion Concert Pianist We must keep alive the spirit of resistance of the Katangan Former U. Ambassador Dr. Magnus I. Gregersen Former Dean, Notre Dame Professor Hans F. Sennholz Law School Grove City College people, who wish only to lead their lives in peace, without General Lewis H. Brereton Columbia University R. Marlier U.S.A.F. (Ret.) Stephen C. Shadegg outside interference! Professor Ernest van den Haag Pennsylvania Arizona Roy M. Brewer New York University B. Matthews Professor William S. Stokes New York Professor Jerzy Hauptmann Former Research Director, HUAC Claremont Men's College Miss Taylor Caldwell Park College Professor Ruth S. Maynard Ralph de Toledano American Committee for Aid to Katangan Freedom Fighters Novelist Earle T. Holsapple Lake Erie College for Women Editor, World John Chamberlain New York Room 909, 79 Madison Avenue Adolphe Menjou Richard A. Viguerie Author, Columnist Professor Willmoore Kendall Actor Young Americans For Freedom New York 16, New York Richard Cowan Political Scientist E. Victor Milione Professor Eliseo Vivas Gentlemen: Yale University Professor Russell Kirk Intercollegiate Society of Northwestern University C. W. Post College Individualists Professor W alter H. Voskuil join with you in supporting the Katangan people's fight against John Crichton Mrs. Alfred Kohlberg Admiral Ben Moreell Political Scientist United Nations despotism and aggression against their country. As an Texas U.S.N. (Ret.) Professor Richard M. Weaver New York indication of my support, enclose my maximum contribution of Senator Everett M. Dirksen Professor Thomas Molnar University of Chicago Herbert V. Kohler Republican, Illinois Brooklyn College General A. C. Wedemeyer $ and authorize you to use it to provide all necessary aid to the Wisconsin Honorable Robert Morris U.S.A. (Ret.) Katangan Freedom Fighters to help them carry on their fight. Professor Ley E. Dobriansky Professor Anthony Kubek Georgetown University President, University of Dallas General William H. Wilbur University of Dallas Professor Gerhart Niemeyer U.S.A. (Ret.) Name Max Eastman Victor Lasky Notre Dame Professor Francis G. Wilson Author, Editor Author Professor Ben Edwin Perry University of Illinois University of Illinois Professor Karl A. Wittfogel Address Honorable Charles Edison Honorable J. Bracken Lee Former Governor of Jersey Former Governor of Utah Commodore Frederick G. University of Washington Reinicke Partial List-Titles Used for Julius Epstein William Loeb City Zone State Journalist Publisher U.S.N. (Ret.) Designation Only. Please make all `checks payable to American Committee for Aid to Katangan Freedom Fighters. (Designations are for identification only.)