Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-m8s7h Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-19T12:26:53.359Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The UN in the Congo

What was the Value and the Cost of UN Intervention?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Get access

Extract

Who can now recall those remote days—in the early 1960s—when Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd charged the UN with "naked aggression" in the Congo, when Republican Senator Barry Goldwater called American policy in the Congo "suicidal," and Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe, demanding a troika to harness UN movements in the Congo and elsewhere, since "there are no neutral men"? Who now pays attention to the Congo? It is united, peaceful, and productive again, and a free election for a multi-party parliament is approaching. There are still serious problems of political and technical skill, capital, and public security—Premier Adoula would like the UN forces to stay another 18 months—but before we discharge the Congo into the ranks of the new international majority of states (they and we, each in our way, to feel a burdensome pride), we ought to pause long enough to assess die moral and political cost of UN intervention in the Congo.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1963

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)