Word: dag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preventive Diplomacy. That vote was a logical culmination of Hammarskjold's whole career as U.N. Secretary-General. When he took over in 1953 from Norway's forthright and flamboyant Trygve Lie, U.N. members contentedly thought they were switching from hot to cool. Dag seemed safely competent and colorless. He still speaks with caution, but on accepting his second term as Secretary-General, he gave full notice that he was prepared, without a specific mandate, "to fill any vacuum" and provide for the "safeguarding of peace and security." Last year he explained candidly that the limitations...
...Soviet vetoes of two resolutions asking just that. Russia did not like but swallowed his decision, and the U.N. found practical as well as theoretical acceptance for its acting as arbiter in internal disputes that might threaten peace. It edged even closer last year when, again over Russian objections, Dag established the U.N. presence in Laos after revival of the Communist Pathet Lao rebellion...
Nothing Succeeds . .. When the Congo broke last month all the devices needed to cope with the situation were already a part of Dag's experience or thinking. From the beginning, the instructions that the Security Council gave Hammarskjold were, in fact, ones that he had written himself...
...cheers Hammarskjold's Congo policy has won, there were voices of dissent. In London, Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express complained that U.N. intervention in the Congo "is an act of brigandage and oppression cloaked by sanctimoniousness . . . Every agitator in Africa looks with hope to Dag Hammarskjold." In Paris the right-wing L'Aurore asked: "Do we understand that in the Congo the first objective is to evict the Belgians and the second to re-establish on his cardboard throne this astonishing Lumumba?'' Paris-Jour, echoing the feeling of those Western Europeans...
...Elisabethville airfield, where they first put down. Belgian commanders in Katanga agreed to start pulling their 7,000 troops back to a single base as more U.N. forces flew in this week. The Congo may remain just one jump ahead of chaos for some time to come, but Dag Hammarskjold had established there a principle that may help in other African troubles to come. His was one more brave try in the 20th century's hopeful, if often frustrated, effort to substitute for the bloody consequences of untrammeled nationalism the security of an international order...