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...Ghana's contempt for its bigger Johnny-come-lately rival, Nigeria, less than two months after winning its independence, is on its way to becoming one of the major forces in Africa. Nigeria's dynamic U.N. Ambassador Jaja Wachuku is chairman of Dag Hammarskjold's Congo Conciliation Commission. A number of African nations, notably those of the French Community, are beginning to sidle up to Nigeria in visible relief at the emergence of a counterweight to the firebrands of Ghana and Guinea. And Abubakar himself has begun the wheeling and dealing abroad expected of a sovereign nation...
...Dag Hammarskjold's defiance of the leader of the "East Side Rocket Gang"-Khrushchev-prompts me to nominate the valiant Swede...
...most frustrated man in Manhattan last week was the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold. His Congo command, having backed all the main antagonists into corners, now seemed to be in full charge in Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations...
...weeks has sat sphinxlike in his official mansion, suddenly announced he would fly to New York to make a bid for the Congo's U.N. seat at this week's debate. While he was there, he too, no doubt, would register his own protests with Dag Hammarskjold...
...poetry lover named Dag Hammarskjold, who, as a member of the Nobel jury for literature, reportedly nominated Saint-John Perse, might have won a Nobel Prize of his own but for the fate of the calendar. For his work in the Congo as U.N. Secretary-General, Hammarskjold was an obvious candidate for the 1960 Peace award. But the Nobel deadline for nominations is Jan. 31. long before the Congo emergency appeared. With Hammarskjold ruled out on this technicality (and perhaps with an eye toward avoiding controversy with Hammarskjold's vociferous detractor, Nikita Khrushchev), the committee decided to make...