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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE reporter is doing his best to refrain from distortion. He Gefined distortion as "insertion of false material or suppression of the truth." With reference to the Congo, WMMBMM said that Tshombe is the best man in the Congo, but that he may be replaced in six months by a general election. The rebellion in the Congo is the same sort of thing as the American Civil War, and the rebels are in the wrong just as surely as the a American South was in the wrong. The rebels are Red supported-- Bupported by Red China, said that, working abroad, one must look at what one considers the most important facets of the news, continued his remarks on the Congo with a reference to the rebels, The rebels call themselves the People's Democratic Hepublic of the Congo, a title which, according to SUM is quite inaccurate: they do not represent the people of the Congo, nor are they democrat They are rebels and cannot be called anything else, concluded by refuting QypaMBAs assertion that the mercy mission was in reality a military one; at Stanleyville, the rebels held five United States foreign service officers and several United Nations technical aides. We were not merely rescuing our own citizens, he said, but performing a service to the United Nations, ED 223: made his rebuttal: the American rebels of 1776 were just as illegitimate as the Congolese rebels of today. The Africans are merely catching up to where we were 180 years ago, and we are looking at them in the same light that the British looked at us. We are being provincial in our outlook. We want to live in a world which excludes certain systems and peoples, according to (GRIMM He then quoted the January 28 editorial from his newspaper, entitled "Congo Brainwash." The gist of this article was that the American people are not being given the whole truth in the Congo crisis. Another comment was one to the effect that Tshombe is an agent of the economic interests in the United States, Great Britain, and Belgium who wish to keep the uranium stocks of the Congo in their hands, ae ee . — , -3-