Word: dag
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...challenge to the U.N.'s new role came from Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin who launched into a 75-minute attack on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and his conduct of the U.N.'s Congo forces. "The U.N. command and the Secretary-General in person," cried Zorin, "ignore the lawful government of the Congo. They do not merely fail to help the government, but attempt to discredit it. They try to impede in every way the implementation of measures which the government is taking to restore order and normalcy in the country. They try to assist the countries...
Zorin ended by demanding what amounted to a vote of censure of Hammarskjold and a directive sharply restricting his authority in the Congo. Dag Hammarskjold's usually impassive face flushed with anger. "My record is on the table," he said. "I stand by it . . . The U.N. is engaged in a major effort to give life and substance to the independence of the Congo. No misunderstandings, no misinformation, no misinterpretations of the actions of the U.N. should be permitted to hamper an operation the importance of which, I know, is fully appreciated by all those African countries which, with great...
Only Alternative. Springing to Dag Hammarskjold's defense, newly installed U.S. Delegate James Wadsworth (Cabot Lodge's successor) boomed: "U.S. policy in the Congo is simple. We support the U.N. wholeheartedly. We consider it the only satisfactory alternative to chaos, war and intervention." Bluntly, Wadsworth ticked off what he said were the real reasons for Soviet rage at Hammarskjold. By closing the Congo's airports and taking over the radio stations, the U.N. had weakened Premier Patrice Lumumba, whom Moscow had hoped to use as a cover for Soviet penetration of the new nation. If he fell...
Vanishing Guards. At week's end Dag Hammarskjold was clearly fed up with his Congo problem child. Before an emergency session of the Security Council, he demanded more power and a clear field to work unhampered. The facts were, said he, that the Congo is near bankruptcy and total administrative collapse. ''Some [army] units have not got any pay for two months, and they have no food, with the result that they disobey orders and loot from the civilian population." The Congolese army in Kasai province was running wild, "engaged in slaughter not only of combatants...
...nation, 16,000 troops and millions of dollars were committed to keeping order, handling all the household problems, and trying to undo the actions of the Premier who had invited the U.N. into the country in the first place. With more countries getting independence nearly every month, Dag Hammarskjold might well wonder where it all would...