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The Congo: Memoirs Shape the Future
Wuliger, Robert | December 17, 1960 issue

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The general situation what it has been since the Congo, Brazzaville began to be exploited by Belgian and international money about seventy-five years ago was a vast treasure of natural wealth that depends upon a reluctant native labor supply to get it out of the ground and process it. The main point of the Congo situation right now is that the workers are being courted by two great power blocs, each of which wants the Congo wealth and must rely upon Congo labor. The big money grew out of rubber. But as the Congo natives were reasonably content with the life that lush, tropical nature was giving them, they showed little interest in collecting the quotas of rubber assigned to them.

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CONGO (Brazzaville) -- Economic conditions; COINAGE, International; LABOR supply; BELGIANS; CONGO (Brazzaville); BRAZZAVILLE (Congo)
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