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Wearing the Colors. The Administration scored a considerable diplomatic victory over the U.S.S.R. in the United Nations when a big majority-including three Afro-Asian nations-voted to back up Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in the Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS). This was a heavy blow to loudly proclaimed Soviet intentions to get Hammarskjold and the United Nations out of the Congo. There was no crowing over the victory. (Both the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled their press conferences.) Instead. Kennedy called in Secretary Rusk and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson. He publicly sent Thompson...
...world-and even in the sleek chambers of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan-Communist-inspired squads broke into rioting (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Soviet Union threatened military intervention in behalf of the Communist-lining Congolese Pretender Antoine Gizenga. It reopened its campaign to destroy the authority of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and. in effect, to destroy the U.N. as a force for law and as a workable instrument of orderly neutrality...
...Moscow, the Russians revealed that their immediate target was U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. operation in the Congo. In a savage 1,500-word statement, they attacked Hammarskjold as an "imperialist lackey" and an "accomplice and organizer of murder," and demanded that he be thrown out of office. Simultaneously, Moscow announced immediate recognition of the Communist-backed Stanleyville rebel regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, onetime Vice Premier in the Lumumba government, and promised "all possible assistance and support" for it. To an anxious world, it seemed a clear threat that Russia was ready to intervene physically...
...rugmaking city of Kerman, anti-government Candidate Mozaffer Baghai had won three times before with large majorities; this time he was credited with only 27 votes against 2,000 for his government opponent. Baghai promptly sent a cable to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold complaining that the government "has suppressed all rights and freedoms." With equal promptness, bastless Baghai was jailed...
Kanza maintained that the "last chance" of the U.S. in the Congo was to realign its policies along anti-colonialist "wave-lengths." He was cautious about evaluating the success of the U.N. in the Congo, saying only that Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold ought to ask himself, "Yes or No--did he follow the instructions of the Security Council...