Word: congos
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...delivered to the United Nations General Assembly at midweek showed this momentous shift of attitude-and was a far cry from the early Eisenhower Administration's attitude toward the U.N., or toward neutrals. The President committed the U.S. to full support of the U.N., not only in the Congo crisis, but in crises to come...
Slapped & Hapless. No one, least of all cocky Khrushchev, could probably have foreseen the degree of frustration that lay ahead for him when he set sail for Manhattan aboard Baltika. Even as he and his cronies were on the high seas, the expelled Communist "technicians" and diplomats in the Congo were packing their bags and heading home in defeat in one of the indelible and humiliating scenes of the cold war (TIME, Sept. 26). Even as his contingent arrived on Manhattan Island, the U.N., in one overwhelming 70-0 vote, slapped down the Russian-led attempt to discredit Dag Hammarskjold...
...rules would permit calling immediately for a vote of confidence in the Secretary-General; he was told that it was impractical. To prove U.S. good intentions, he then handed Hammarskjold a U.S. check for $5,000,000, an advance payment on the U.S. contribution to U.N. costs in the Congo, and assured him that additional funds would be made available. Herter was still steamed up when he answered reporters' questions at a Foreign Press Association meeting. Part of his ire splashed over on Ghana's Nkrumah. Acknowledging that he had not read all of Nkrumah's speech...
...united-or peacefully federated-Congo seemed as far away as ever. But at least the chief troublemaker had taken a mighty tumble...
...Baudouin's popular mother, the lovely Astrid of Sweden, was killed in a 1935 Swiss auto accident. It was hoped that marriage would mellow the taciturn and glumly authoritarian manner of King Baudouin, and the royal wedding would help take Belgian minds off the bloody catastrophe of the Congo. The rest of the world experienced the warming reaction that seems to come, especially to democratic nations, with every pomp and circumstance of vanishing royalty. In this case there was a special cause for cheers: the Cinderella girl who couldn't seem to catch a man had caught...