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...Francisco conference no common law, no common principle, no common view of man or the world-only a ritualistic insistence that mankind must have some sort of security from war.* After years of worldwide incantations about support for the U.N. and worldwide disillusionment with its performance, Dag Hammarskjold did one thing-he reduced the great but impossible hope of U.N. as the molder of world peace to the small but possible hope of U.N. as an arbiter, and even a policeman, in relatively minor trouble areas where the interests of the great nations were not directly involved...
...Shoe-Thumping Fellow. Dag Hammarskjold believed in "quiet diplomacy," an elegant discipline that few diplomatists of his era, surrounded by swift teletypes and curious reporters, were able to endure. Undramatically, he sent a United Nations Emergency Force into Egypt in the wake of the abortive British, French and Israeli invasion-and for the first time the world saw the strange sight of oddly assorted volunteers from various countries (Danes, Norwegians, Colombians) in blue helmets serving as an international army. Then came the U.N. "presence" in Lebanon and Jordan in 1958, the U.N.'s representative in Laos in 1959, last...
...half years later, the West threatened the same tactics to force Russian acceptance of Dag Hammarskjold. U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge marched up to Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and said: "If you don't take Hammarskjold, we'll continue Lie's term." Only then did Russia allow Hammarskjold's candidacy to get through the Security Council...
...small church of a copper-belt town in Northern Rhodesia, Dag Hammarskjold lay in state...
...control tower at Ndola, barely seven miles from the charred clearing slashed out by Dag Hammarskjold's doomed plane, two men arranged the cease-fire he had set out to negotiate. After a two-day session, Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and U.N. Negotiator Mahmoud Khiari signed a provisional truce, ending the eight-day Battle of Katanga. Unofficial death toll: 44 U.N. troops, 152 Katangese police and soldiers, 79 African civilians, 14 European civilians...