Word: dag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dag Hammarskjold. We may bow to him for preventing a major war in the Middle East. LAURENS BOGERS...
Heroes: Nasser, Ike, Dag...
Doing something about the bloody oppression in Hungary, however, came harder. Early last week Hungarian Foreign Minister Imre Horvath somewhat evasively announced that the puppet government of Janos Kadar was ready to discuss plans for U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's proposed trip to Hungary. When Hammarskjold replied that he was prepared to arrive in Budapest on Dec. 16, Horvath equably relayed this information to his government...
Unlike some of the U.N.'s critics, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was not disturbed by UNEF's comparative lack of military muscle. "In terms of its potential effectiveness in performing its mission," he said, UNEF "must be rated as equivalent to a substantially larger military body." In fact, the UNEF buildup provided the British and French governments with a face-saving justification for their decision to carry out a prompt withdrawal from Egypt (see above...
...clamping down hard on Britain and France. Less than 24 hours before Pineau spoke, 190 Norwegian riflemen of the United Nations Emergency Force entered Port Said amidst screams of welcome from a wild-eyed Egyptian mob. The Norwegians were the thin end of a wedge with which U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold intended to winkle the reluctant British and French out of Egypt...