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Wearing the Colors. The Administration scored a considerable diplomatic victory over the U.S.S.R. in the United Nations when a big majority-including three Afro-Asian nations-voted to back up Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in the Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS). This was a heavy blow to loudly proclaimed Soviet intentions to get Hammarskjold and the United Nations out of the Congo. There was no crowing over the victory. (Both the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled their press conferences.) Instead. Kennedy called in Secretary Rusk and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson. He publicly sent Thompson...
...foreign policy that would not have to just react to the Russians. He sent three personal representatives fact-finding through Latin America. He sent Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Western Europe. Behind the scenes at the U.N., Adlai Stevenson moved to achieve greater rapport with responsible neutralists in the Afro-Asian bloc, by backing their resolutions on agenda issues instead of floating his own. The State Department talked of the new U.S. hope of helping to establish broad-based governments instead of strongmen in troubled areas. In a tough memorandum to West Germany, the U.S. warned all its traditional allies...
...would drop to 13,800 by mid-March if the Indonesian and Moroccan troop units pulled out and went home as planned. Needed was a minimum total of 20,000 men. On the day after the big debate, Dag Hammarskjold began recruiting among the Indians, Pakistanis, Iraqis and other Afro-Asian delegates...
When Adlai Stevenson told Soviet Delegate Zorin about the plan, mentioning lightly that India and Nigeria-two conspicuous Afro-Asian names-might introduce it as a resolution, the Russian seemed startled: "What's that, what's that?" he barked at the interpreter. "Repeat that about India and Nigeria." He knew Moscow could not come out flatly against any scheme with wide support among the Asians and Africans...
...Support. In Léopoldville, stolid President Joseph Kasavubu and his new Premier Joseph Ileo picked up new support. Last week the U.N.'s Conciliation Commission, composed of eleven Afro-Asian countries that sent troops to the Congo, advised that Ileo might be able to bring peace with a broad-based government, and they recommended convening a "summit" meeting to bring the Congo's assorted factional leaders to agreement...