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and Spanish. They practice medicine in the Congo, not for profit, but for the benefit of the
underdeveloped populations. The political questions did not concern them. Being doctors,
they had no position to take regarding matters which they felt were solely the responsibility
of the Katangese government and UN authorities. What was their concern, however, was
the health and well-being of the population in their care. The prevention of wounds was of
equal concern to them as the prevention of sickness. Consequently, they were well within
their role of physicians when they issued their protest and declared: "It is not as active
partisans of an independent Katanga that the civilian doctors of Elisabethville have
thought it their duty to warn the world conscience, but strictly as citizens of the world,
besides being bound by the Hippocratic oath which compels them to fight against death
wherever it may come from."
3. After teaching at City College and the University of Minnesota, Professor Ernest van
den Haag became (and still is) a member of the faculty of New York University and the
New School for Social Research. He lectures widely and is the author of Education as an
Industry and of The Fabric of Society (with Ralph Ross), the latter a widely used textbook
in the social sciences. He has published many articles in American and foreign learned
journals. Professor van den Haag is a fellow of the American Sociological Association and
of the Royal Economic Society.
4. In the original source material, the nationality of the particular soldiers involved was
given. It would seem unfair, however, to implicate a whole nationality when the soldiers
were completely subject to UN directives. The United Nations has never apologized for
the action of these men or implied that it was not responsible for their acts. In fact, it has
widely praised their performance. It will be our practice, therefore, to substitute the name
United Nations for all future references to troops of specific nationalities serving under UN
command.
5. Ernest van den Haag, The War in Katanga (New York, American Committee for Aid to
Katanga Freedom Fighters, 1962), p. 11.
6. 46 Angry Men, pp. 27-29.
7. Hempstone, pp. 221-222. For Williams' statement see "Those Angelic UN Soldiers,"
Chicago Tribune (December 28, 1961).