Word: dag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slim, sandy-haired Hammarskjold marched past a Katanga honor guard, a crowd of several hundred Belgians and Africans set up a cry of "Down with the United Nations." At the sight of the 240 Swedish troops,* the U.N. advance guard who, Dag said, were under "my exclusive, personal authority," the crowd jeered again...
Eighty-Two Obligations. The quiet man who has done all of this is a 55-year-old bachelor who was born in a lakeside castle in Sweden of a long line of aristocrats and intellectuals. Despite his athleticism (mountain climbing, cycling), slope-shouldered Dag Hammarskjold has a mild and even frail appearance. He converses sedately in four languages (excellent Swedish, English and French, adequate German), and when he sees a listener has got his drift, will often finish up, "and so forth...
Memories of Korea. Dag talked with U.S. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge in his suite. The U.S. was sympathetic to the Belgian position but not ready to side with it, sobered by the risk that Congo might become another Korea. The U.S. thought that the Belgians should get out of Katanga fast. That viewpoint was forcefully expressed to the British, French, Italians and South Americans...
...Dawn. When he finally entered the wide blue and gold council chamber, Dag Hammarskjold looked, as always, calm and cool. But there was a strain in his tired voice, and his words, usually oblique and professional, this time were plain and full of passion. The Congo, said Hammarskjold with chilling precision, is "a question of peace or war, and when saying peace or war, I do not limit my perspective to the Congo." Bluntly he portioned out blame to Belgium for dragging its feet, to the Congo for its impatience, and strongly criticized governments-unnamed-which threatened to take matters...
...with France and Italy abstaining, the U.N. Security Council by a vote of 9-0 gave Dag Hammarskjold the resolution he wanted...