“We know the man,” shrugged Central Government Premier Cyrille Adoula in Leopoldville. “It is not the first time that Tshombe has declared himself ready to renounce his ambitions to found an ...

John Waller was with the 66th Infantry Division on the SS Leopoldville when it was torpedoed on its way from Southampton to Cherbourg in 1944. More than 800 people drowned, but he survived despite ...