The brutal beatings of Acting U.N. Katanga Chief George Ivan Smith and Special Adviser Brian Urquhart (TIME, Dec. 8) had already left the U.N. soldiers tense, angry, and spoiling for a fight.

The mineral-rich southeastern province of Katanga in preindependence days supplied 60% of the revenue of the Congo government and most of the wealth the Belgians drew from the colony.

The Jewish Agency executive, at a meeting today, heard a report on the situation of the Jews in Katanga and other parts of Congo. The report was presented by Rabbi Moshe Levi of Elisabethville who ...