Abstract
In the same year that the General Assembly passed its celebrated Declaration on Colonialism, the organization became involved in the most serious decolonization crisis it was ever to confront. It was a crisis which aroused passionate disagreement: between East and West, between colonial powers and former colonies, even between different members of each of these groups. And it was to bring about the largest, most expensive and most controversial operation of the organization’s entire history.
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Notes
See E. W. Lefever, Uncertain Mandate (Baltimore, Md., 1967) p. 27.
Catherine Hoskyns, The Congo since Independence (London, 1965) p. 128.
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Luard, E. (1989). The Congo. In: A History of the United Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20030-6_11
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