215. Editorial Note
On September 14, the U.N. Security Council met three times to discuss the situation in the Congo. The first two sessions were occupied with the problem of the two rival Congolese delegations. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth argued that President Kasavubu’s representative, Justin Bomboko, was the proper Congolese representative but that a debate on the subject would not be useful. He proposed that for the time being, neither delegation should be invited. Subsequently, the Polish Representative moved to invite Thomas Kanza; the motion was defeated by a vote of 3 to 0, with 8 abstentions, including the United States. At the evening session, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin made a lengthy and highly critical statement on U.N. actions in the Congo and Secretary-General Hammarskjold replied briefly. For the record of the three meetings, see U.N. docs. S/PV.899, 900, and 901; for excerpts from the statements by Zorin and Hammarskjöld, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1960, pages 575–582.