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When the U.N.'s 16th General Assembly opened last fall, it seemed headed for disaster. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was dead, and in sight of his empty chair on the Assembly podium, the Russians fought week after week to destroy the post he had occupied. Then came the savage Katanga war, in which U.N. forces fought to put down Moise Tshombe's rebellion against the Congo's central government-a conflict in which many felt that the U.N. had no business taking part. Many of the new Afro-Asian nations, which now made up nearly half...
...only Administration official who regularly attends Cabinet meetings, National Security Council sessions, the weekly White House conference with legislative leaders and the briefings before presidential press conferences. He has acted as the President's personal representative on missions to Africa, to Southeast Asia, to Sweden for Dag Hammarskjold's funeral, and to Berlin just after the East Germans threw up the Wall...
...restrict it. Lord Home is quite right when he warns that tacit approval of Nehru's Goan adventure will open the door to a perilous new era of petty wars and territorial brigandage. But he is quite wrong in thinking that there is an alternative to the UN. Dag Hammarskjold wanted an active, vigorous UN executive who would settle explosive situations before international violence broke out--this concept is plainly offensive to Britain's Foreign Secretary. If the UN adopted the British theory of being simply conciliatory, simply a mediator, in the Congo, then it is fair to predict that...
...choice is the man who "dominated the news of that year and left an indelible mark-for good or ill-on history." As usual, our readers were invited to make their own nominations. Everybody from Dr. Dooley to Chubby Checker was nominated, but most frequently suggested were Dag Hammarskjold, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and either the U.S. or the Russian spacemen. Hammarskjold finished ahead in the popular vote with Kennedy second...
...hand. Dobrynin, a protégé of Gromyko's, was in the Soviet embassy in Washington for three years (11952-55) and served one year as minister-counselor. After returning to Russia, he went to the United Nations as under secretary to the late Dag Hammarskjold - and the highest ranking Russian on the U.N. staff. In 1960, he returned to Moscow, where he took charge of the American desk of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. A tall Ukrainian with receding, slightly greying hair, Dobrynin, 42, will be the first Soviet envoy to the U.S. who was born after...