Mr. Ishorobe Agrees
p1 thusiasm (they were just what he always wanted!) has been met with the scepticism his conciliatory remarks have come to deserve. In welcoming a viable Congo he is not necessarily talking about the same thing as Mr. Adoula. His suggestion of a commission to see how much Katanga can spare from her copper revenues should produce some interesting if not very generous figures. Inter- pretations of the UN plans, and of N'fr' l'shomhe's own words, arc still free. MO Tshombe, however, is not there to negotiate terms but to accept them. His present verbal support should be welcomed, and should be implemented by his never being allowed the smallest oppor- tunity to go back on it. It is, after all, only the first stage of the Congo plan; further stages can now go ahead, the armed forces be integrated and at least some revenue immediately supplied to the central government. Most important of all, the . UN might now start thinking much further ahead for the Cohgo.- The copper revenues will by n°means solve the country's problems. Plans f°r . long-term aid and real economic viability should.. be introduced now. If this begins to happen, it may well be that UN intervention will hard worked in the Congo and will have worked het_ ter than anything else could. This is the sort of precedent which the British Government shot" he going out of its way to support.
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