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...recognized. An expert on finance whose translations of French verse won critical acclaim, he combined the resourcefulness of a diplomat with the vision of a poet. His vision, the philosophy of international cooperation which inspired his many expeditions of mediation and reconciliation, including his fatal mission to the Congo, found its fullest expression in the document which turned out to be his final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from Africa, Mr. Hammarskjold contrasted two concepts of the authority and function of the United Nations. Some...
When the deadline passed, U.N. Congo Chief Sture Linner reported: "At least 104 foreign personnel failed to give any account of themselves." O'Brien de manded compliance. In answer, Katanga's white-led political police arrested O'Brien's deputy, Michel Tombelaine. Reported Linner, with undisguised frustration: "This was the culmination of a long series of wrongful acts by these officers, including the organization of attacks on the United Nations, repeated threats, and incitements to violence." O'Brien issued an ultimatum: remove all remaining white officers, or else. When Tshombe flatly refused, U.N. troops went...
...members were sharply divided over what to do in Katanga. Britain called for a ceasefire. France condemned the action. Ireland, worried about its soldiers and this fall's national elections, dispatched its Foreign Minister to the Congo. In the neighboring Central African Federation, Sir Roy Welensky, openly friendly to Katanga's pro-European attitude, arranged to send food and medical supplies to the Tshombe troops, remarking that "I really don't care if the United Nations likes that or not." The U.S. cautiously supported the U.N. operation, finally urged that fighting be stopped. Radio Moscow charged that...
...week's end, Hammarskjold, jolted by the military setbacks and looking drawn and pale after three days of harried talks in Léopoldville, got another jolt from across the Congo River in Brazzaville. His scheduled take-off for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York was forbidden by authorities in the former French Congo, who said that they could not guarantee his safety "because of the discontent and agitation provoked by events in Katanga." When Hammarskjold heard the news, his only reaction was to stare vacantly in the direction of an Indian pipe drum...
...before Toynbee seized on it-ignores a worldwide phenomenon. What the world's masses, particularly in underdeveloped nations, now aspire to is not just a bare subsistence. Convinced by the U.S. ex ample that poverty is not an essential condition of human existence, men from Karachi to the Congo are demanding an affluent society for themselves and are working toward...