G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Lumumba was actually in support of United Nations policy, and therefore presumably
quite all right. 7 Even Conor Cruise O'Brien, chief United Nations representative in
Katanga, admitted that the Soviets had given Lumumba 100 trucks, 29 transport planes
and 200 technicians. 8 These figures, of course, were an underestimation. For one thing,
they did not include the more than two hundred Russian and Czechoslovakian "diplomats"
who were by then swarming all over the Congo. 9 And finally, as revealed later by Colonel
Joseph Mobutu, who had been serving under Lumumba, Red China had promised
Lumumba $2,800,000 in aid. 10
Lumumba had written: "if necessary, I shall not hesitate to call in the DEVIL 11 to save the
country. . . . I am convinced that with the unreserved support of the Soviets, I shall win the
day in spite of everything!" 12
Joseph Yav, a former Lumumba associate and economics minister of his government until
July 17, 1960, made the following statement to Philippa Schuyler, an American reporter in
the Congo at the time of independence:
Yes, Lumumba is a Communist! I know it. I have proof. This does not
mean Lumumba understands the ideological theories of Communism or
its intellectual background. He's never read Das Kapital. He went Red
not for mental convictions but because he was bought. On his visit to
Russia and East Germany, he was given money, presents, girls and
lavish hospitality. He never looked behind the glitter to see the real
foundation of these slave states. 13
This, of course, is the general pattern of recruitment into the Communist party in those
parts of the world where there is not a sufficient group of so-called "intellectuals" from
which to draw. The Communists much prefer the intellectual type since they are more
easily ensnared and it is less expensive to keep them hooked on the party line. But in
Africa they have to use money and flattery to accomplish what intellectual deception and
flattery will accomplish for them in the more "advanced" countries. This point was
graphically brought home by Gabriel Kitenge, national president of the Congolese Union
party, when he told the same reporter:
The Communists have bribed scores of Congo political leaders-with
trips, girls, gifts, cars and flattery.
The Congolese never rose above lower-middle-class living under the
Belgians. So they are hungry for luxuries. They will do anything for
luxuries. Ideologies and principles are vague and far off to them; it's the
eloquent message of material things that they listen to. . . .
I have tried to tell American consular officials here of the grave danger
that the Congo will go Red after independence, but they don't listen to
me.
I beg of you, tell your newspaper readers in America of the grave
Communist menace that threatens here. Beg them to pressure their
congressmen in Washington to do something about it!
Don't let the West abandon us! 14