Word: dag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survival. The clouds of war still gathered over Berlin. In Southeast Asia, Communist Viet Cong guerrillas increased the bloody pace of their raids on the communities of South Viet Nam. In Manhattan, the U.S. worked tirelessly to preserve the United Nations, suddenly bereft of its capable Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold...
...When Dag Hammarskjold first accepted the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations, he said: "Fate is what we make it." The fate which he suffered last week resulted ironically and tragically from his effort to fulfill the role he outlined in 1953: to be "an instrument, a catalyst, an inspirer," to facilitate cooperation among nations...
These delegates were wrong, of course. If Dag Hammarskjold had been no more than an efficient administrator, his organization--and theirs, and all the world's--might have quietly sunk into oblivion in the troubled waters of the world. That the United Nations still exists today, that after 15 years it offers achievement and potential far beyond that of any previous international organization, is due in no small part to the successes and ideals of an international public servant who lost his life in its service...
...that the U.N.'s O'Brien, presumably with the full approval of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, had started in an attempt to bring Tshombe back under the authority of the Congo central government and thus head off a possible civil war. As the fighting raged on, it carried the United Nations into the new, uncomfortable-and, to some critics, indefensible-position of active aggressor on a large scale...
...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 the U.N. did not really want to oust Tshombe and unite the Congo. And there were those who wondered if Dag Hammarskjold's U.N. forces would have been as ready to fight if Gizenga and not Tshombe had seceded...