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Tshombe's fondness for the Belgians seemed stronger than ever when, during Katanga's secession, he insisted that Belgian troops remain in Katanga in preference to the central government's troops and to the United Nations soldiers sent to maintain order in the Congo. Dag Hammarskjold assured him that UN forces wouldn't interfere in his affairs, but Tshombe still refused to let them in. UN forces began to replace the Belgians in September. But Tshombe still had his own mercenaries. He neither cooperated with the UN nor dismissed the mercenaries. Through the end of 1962, Tshombe agreed repeatedly...
MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. The late Secretary-General of the United Nations called this journal a record of "my negotiations with myself-and with God." Sometimes exalted, sometimes in despair, Hammarskjold wrote only of his mind and emotions in a series of pensees, poems and meditations that reveal the iciest diplomat of them all was at heart a God-haunted mystic...
MARKINGS by Dag Hammarskjöld. 221 pages. Knopf...
...uncertain, the uneasy, who only hoped for the best without knowing just what the best was, who believed that sheer good will could somehow resolve all the world's conflicts. His very immobility was reassuring; at times he seemed the still point of the turning world. Not even Dag Hammarskjöld's close friends knew that this dispassionate diplomat was a tormented man who poured out his emotions in highly impassioned poems, aphorisms, haiku and prayers, dealing, as he put it, with "birth and death, love and pain-the reality behind the dance under the daylight lamps...
Narasimhan, a top assistant to U.N. Secretary General U Thant, devoted most of the annual Dag Hammerskjold Lecture to a review of the U.N.'s efforts to promote "peaceful change" in the world...