THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1962. On the evidence from Katanga: SHALL WE BAIL THE U.N. OUT OF BANKRUPTCY? The United Nations Secretariat is bankrupt. It has kept we have acted as spokesman for what we believe to be the Some Comments on going during the past year only by advances and grants from sentiment of a substantial number of Americans on United U.N. Action Against Katanga the United States and by "internal borrowing" from the States policy in the Congo. special and supposedly earmarked funds of its affiliated organizations. we have dispatched a mission to the Congo headed by "I welcome President Kennedy's efforts to secure a Professor Ernest van den Haag, distinguished social scientist cease-fire and a peaceful solution, and all the American The U.N.'s bankruptcy has been precipitated by the catas- people will hope for his success. But despite the and author. Professor van den Haag has undertaken to con- President's efforts, hostilities against Katanga con- trophic operation in the Congo. duct an impartial and on-the-spot investigation of the situa- tinue. It is sad day for the American people when The General Assembly voted to offer for sale a $200 mil- tion and to make his findings available to the American American resources are being applied to the killing of public and to the Congress. He is also investigating the ways people who are seeking only independence and self- lion bond issue to get the United Nations through the cur- rent year. and means by which our Committee can effectively help the government, free from Communist domination." Katanga Freedom Fighters. On January 9th, we received the HONORABLE HERBERT HOOVER The President has proposed that Congress appropriate the following cable from Elisabethville. money for our government to buy a full half-$100 million "The national interest of the United States requires worth-of this U.N. bond issue, secured by no one knows SK84 a deep Congressional investigation of United States what. BNW 643 Congo policy-a policy which seems to have the ef- ELISABETHVILLE 6 0815 The United States already pays close to 50% of all U.N. fect of helping the Soviet Union against Western interests including the positions of some of our expenses including the action in the Congo. KATANGA EE 79 MADISONAVENUE NEWYORKCITY staunchest allies. American money, men, planes, With the experience of what the U.N. has been doing and equipment and avowed policy are being used to punish anti-Communist Katanga." failing to do-above all in the Congo-Congress and the UN SOLDIERS COMMITTED UNBELIEVABLE ATROCITIES REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM E. MILLER American people are entitled to know the facts, and all the HERE STOP AM SHATTERED VISIT CHILDRENS WARD Republican, New York facts, before we decide to bail the U.N. out of the bankruptcy STOP SPOKE NUMEROUS VICTIMS STOP UN into which its own policies have plunged it. TRANSFORMED ELIZABETHVILLE BATTLE FIELD IN ATTEMPT INTIMIDATE ANTI COMMUNIST KATANGANS "I do not see how an international organization dedi- STOP ONLY HOPE RESTS WITH AMERICAN PUBLIC THE COMMITTEE ACTION TO RESTRAIN UN FROM WAR AGAINST NATIVE cated to peace can wage war on the people of Ka- On December 14, 1961 the American Committee For Aid CIVILIAN POPULATION STOP DAMAGED HOSPITALS tanga without destroying its purpose and its mean- NEED MONEY STOP DETAILS ON RETURN ing. And do not believe that conciliation can be To Katanga Freedom Fighters was publicly launched as an VANDENHAAG achieved by bullying and by show or use of military expression of the American people's opposition to U.N. CFM 79 power." SENATOR THOMAS J. DODD military action in Katanga and United States logistical and Democrat, Connecticut financial support of this action. The response to the announce- ment of the formation of our Committee was instantaneous We believe that our Committee is in the great tradition of and widespread: private American citizens banding together to take public "In recent weeks, events in the Congo have given action when historic issues are at stake. Our success to most concerned Americans reason to regret our blind upwards of 5,000 individuals throughout the country sent date is an indication that this tradition is still strong and support of U.N. policy. We now find ourselves financial contributions to the Committee. meaningful. financing armed aggression leveled at people who asked nothing more than to be independent the additional thousands of letters were received at our Com- The American Committe For Aid To Katanga Freedom United States is paying most of the cost of this U.N. mittee's headquarters from citizens informing us that they Fighters calls on our fellow citizens to take all appropriate adventure, and the dispatches indicate that United action to achieve the following urgent objectives: States equipment is being used by the U.N. Can we were writing to their representatives in Washington, to U.S. avoid responsibility for what the U.N. is doing?' Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai E. Stevenson, to President 1. TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER U.N. MILITARY OPERATIONS SENATOR BARRY M. GOLDWATER Kennedy, and to U.N. Secretary General U Thant demand- AGAINST KATANGA, AND TO SECURE THE WITHDRAWAL OF Republican, Arizona ALL U.N. MILITARY FORCES FROM KATANGA. ing that U.N. action against Katanga be stopped immediately 2. TO STOP IMMEDIATELY ALL UNITED STATES SUPPORT, and that the United States withdraw all support of U.N. DIRECT OR INDIRECT, OF U.N. MILITARY OPERATIONS IN "We have always advocated the principle that a people military operations in Katanga. KATANGA. has a right to determine for itself what its type of government will be. The precedent established by the announcement of our Committee opened the door to full 3. TO RECOGNIZE MOISE TSHOMBE AND HIS GOVERNMENT U.N. in the Congo is a dangerous one. If the U.N. and open discussion of United States Congo policy. AS LEGITIMATE SPOKESMEN FOR KATANGA, AND TO PERMIT is allowed to send troops into the Congo, then it THE PEOPLE OF KATANGA TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES necessarily follows that it can send them into any our Committee's statement was reprinted in 19 major country of the world for the purpose of settling WHAT POLITICAL RELATION THEY WILL HAVE WITH THE domestic political problems. newspapers through local contributions. OTHER PROVINCES OF THE FORMER BELGIAN CONGO. SENATOR FRANK J. LAUSCHE What has the American Committee For Aid To Katanga 4. TO DEMAND A THOROUGH CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGA- Democrat, Ohio Freedom Fighters done in the short time since it has been TION, WITH FULL PUBLIC HEARINGS, TO DETERMINE THE organized? FACTS ABOUT THE U.N. CONGO OPERATION, AND THE BEAR- ING OF U.N. CONDUCT IN GENERAL ON THE SECURITY AND "The United Nations. which is supposed to be an instrument for peace, has been bombing and strafing . we have made emergency funds available to private med- INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Katanga Province in the Congo, killing civilians in- ical groups in Katanga for immediate use to alleviate the 5. TO POSTPONE CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON THE U.N. discriminately from the air and destroying hospitals sufferings of those who were wounded by U.N. military BOND ISSUE UNTIL CONGRESS AND THE PUBLIC HAVE BEFORE and places of worship, while Moise Tshombe, the educated, Christian anti-Communist head of Katanga, operations or who were left homeless by U.N. bombs. THEM THE FINDINGS OF THAT INVESTIGATION. has been pleading for peace and negotiations. Even the Red Cross has protested. The U.N., instead of serving as an agency to mediate differences among the various factions in the Congo, has been attempting to force Moise Tshombe to join the central govern- ment of the Congo, which is infiltrated by Communists and Communist sympathizers. RICHARD M. NIXON AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR AID TO KATANGA FREEDOM FIGHTERS "Withdraw support, both moral and financial, for the Suite 909 79 Madison Avenue New York 16, MUrray Hill 5-0190 United Nations aggression against Katanga, one of the CHAIRMAN: DR. MAX YERGAN SPONSORS (Partial List) most solidly anti-Communist nations on the African continent. SENATOR STROM THURMOND Professor Paul L. Adams Senator James o. Eastland Professor Reginald D. Lang *William A. Rusher Democrat, South Carolina Roberts Wesleyan College Democrat, Mississippi Carleton College Publisher Holmes Alexander Max Eastman William Loeb Professor o. Glenn Saxon Columnist Author, Editor Publisher Yale University C. D. Batchelor Honorable Charles Edison Dr. Charles W. Lowry Editorial Cartoonist John Schlafly "Everyone has seen the chaos in the Congo Yet Former Governor of New Jersey Foundation for Religious Action Attorney many delegates were instructed by their governments Dr. Phillip Bard Julius Epstein *Eugene Lvons Robert Schuchman to sponsor and vote for resolutions which could only John Hopkins University Journalist Author, Editor Young Americans For Freedom multiply and magnify that chaos A large part of Professor James Washington Bell M. Stanton Evans Southern Illinois University Arthur G. McDowell *George S. Schuyler the organization, which is dedicated to peace, openly Editor Professor Anthony T. Bouscaren Council Against Communist Aggression Columnist condones aggression." LORD HOME LeMoyne College Lawrence Fertig Professor William M. McGovern Professor Hans F. Sennholz Economist, Columnist Northwestern University Grove City College British Foreign Secretary *L. Brent Bozell John M. Fisher Author Professor Ralph S. Marsh Stephen C. Shadegg Illinois University Dallas Arizona General Lewis H. Brereton U.S. (Ret.) Professor William Fleming Professor Ruth S. Maynard Llovd H Smith Roy M. Brewer Ripon College Lake Erie College for Women Texas New York Clifford Forster *Frank S. Meyer Professor William S. Stokes American Committee For Aid To Katanga Freedom Fighters Dr. Denton J. Brooks, Jr. Attorney Author Claremont Men's College Room 909, 79 Madison Avenue Chicago Professor Mark Graubard E. Victor Milione Archbishop Theodotus Representative Donald Bruce University of Minnesota New York 16, New York Intercollegiate Society of Individualists Holy Orthodo Church in America Republican, Indiana Senator Barry M. Goldwater Admiral Ben Moreell Ralph de Toledano Gentlemen: *William F. Buckley, Jr. Republican, Arizona U. (Ret.) Editor Hon. Ralph W. Gwinn I am citizen of the United States, have no financial invest- Author, Editor Professor Thomas Molnar Professor Stephen J. Tonsor *James Burnham New York Brooklyn College University of Michigan ment in Katanga or the area of the former Belgian Congo, and am Author Professor Jerzy Hauptmann Honorable Robert Morris Representative James B. Utt not the representative in the United States of any foreign govern- Miss Taylor Caldwell Park College President, University of Dallas Republican, California ment, person, firm or corporation. wish to join in supporting the Novelist Professor Bernard C. Heyl Frederick Nelson Professor Eliseo Vivas purposes and program of the American Committee For Aid To John Chamberlain Wellesley College Editor Northwestern University Katanga Freedom Fighters and enclose my maximum contribution Author, Columnist Dr. Howard E. Kershner Professor Gerhart Niemeyer Professor Walter H. Voskuil of $ Professor Edward P. Coleson Christian Economics Foundation Notre Dame Political Scientist Spring Arbor College Admiral Charles M. 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