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...Secretary-General who comes after me," Dag Hammarskjold once said, "will be one of the Afro-Asians." Last week, nearly two months after Hammarskjold's death, the U.N. fulfilled his prophecy. Picked to succeed Dag, after weeks of haggling between Russia and the U.S., was Burma's permanent U.N. delegate, U Thant (rhymes with Du Pont).* His selection came after Russia finally backed away from its insistence on a troika leadership and compromised with the U.S. on the number and authority of assistant secretaries. The U S wanted five, one each from the U.S., Russia, Latin America, Africa...
...Congress, and since 1959, by decree of the racist South African government, a virtual exile from his people. Awarded a year late because of the exhaustive search into his qualifications by the Nobel Committee, the honor was bracketed with the 1961 prize, posthumously awarded to the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold...
...with just a trace of scorn in his voice, he suggested that if the big powers could not really get together on a successor to Dag Hammarskjold, the problem might be turned over to someone else-the Africans themselves. "We, the smaller states, will produce one," declared Wachuku, "and will give him our fullest support. That is how we do things in Africa...
None of the Africans seemed to consider that innumerable "offensive, fictitious and erroneous" tirades had been loosed on the U.N. by the Communists (including Khrushchev's shoe-pounding and other Reds' denunciation of Dag Hammarskjold as "Lumumba's murderer") without the West's calling for censure. Some Africans went even farther...
Strength & Soap. News and public affairs, TV's one strong suit last year, is even stronger this fall. U.S. television cameras have thoroughly covered the world's major crises from Berlin's Wall to the U.N. reaction to Dag Hammarskjold's death. Adlai Stevenson has begun a highly effective series of Sunday afternoon talks on ABC. CBS Reports last week began its worthy three-part interview with Eisenhower (see THE NATION), and Commentator David Brinkley began sounding off on his own, opening his Journal with a mordant discussion that ranged from the U.S. outdoor billboard industry...