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When the explosion came in the Congo, Hammarskjold was ready. He had just been round the continent making the indispensable contacts of confidence with the new leaders. At the request of the new Congo government, he had prepared a program of "technical assistance.' The man he appointed to get it started was Michigan-born Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, a colored man who could offer such assistance most gracefully. Bunche was on the job in Leopoldville when things blew...
...nation to ask for a meeting of the Security Council; instead, using his authority under the charter's Article 99 for the first time, he called the Security Council into emergency session on his own motion. Obviously, if the great powers were allowed to send troops to the Congo, the cold war would be extended to the Congo. His recommendation: the U.N. force should be drawn primarily from "sister African nations." But to provide the "element of universality essential to any U.N. operation," he suggested that neutrals and other nations not involved in the cold war should take part...
...promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to "stage a crash operation." From 10 capitals he got pledges of emergency food supplies, and from Washington, Moscow and London...
Rare Eloquence. Hammarskjold confronted a second major crisis when Premier Lumumba served an "ultimatum," threatening that he would call in Russian troops if the U.N. did not get the Belgians out of the Congo at once. Hammarskjold offered a careful, sober report on what the U.N. police force had achieved in a brief five days and what it hoped to achieve in the immediate future. Despite Belgian charges and Congo countercharges, it was Hammarskjold's level-voiced account that carried the most weight. In the course of the action, Hammarskjold had the satisfaction of seeing the Soviet Union cast...
Less than 24 hours after the U.N. Security Council in Manhattan voted to send troops and aid to the beleaguered Congo, the first silver-bodied, red-tailed Hercules plane whined off the runway of the U.S. Air Station at Chateauroux in southern France. At Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina and at Dover Base in Delaware, ponderous Globemasters lumbered into the air. By last week 132 U.S. transport planes were flying across half the world in the vast United Nations airlift to and from the Congo...