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...Alignment. In Leopoldville, Western officials and diplomats were frankly bewildered at the strange turn of events. Best guess was that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was reacting to new and compelling pressures. In the face of Nikita Khrushchev's attack in the General Assembly, the new African nations had rallied to the defense of the U.N. and Hammarskjold himself. But the 70-0 Assembly vote upholding Hammarskjold obscured the fact that many Africans still felt that Lumumba was the legitimate head of the Congolese government. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea's Sekou Toure demanded Lumumba...
...turned their fire on the Belgians. They charged that 500 Belgians were arriving weekly on Sabena's nights from Europe, the aim being, as one U.N. report put it, "to re-establish the Belgian civil service and relegate United Nations technicians to lower echelons." Twice in two weeks Dag Hammarskjold sent sharp notes of protest to Belgium. Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny bluntly rejected the notes, argued that there was nothing wrong with bilateral technical aid to the Congo (Hammarskjold might reply that that was just what the Russians had said...
Blunt Advice. Tshombe demands that the U.N. formally recognize Katanga's independent status; the U.N. is equally determined to pull Katanga back into the Congo Republic-which can never prosper without Katanga's mineral riches. As part of the pressure on Katanga, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold again last week aimed blunt words at the Belgians, demanding that they cease financial and political support for Secessionist Tshombe...
...than a spittoon-a cuspidor"; Nationalist China was "a corpse we have to cast right out of here, straight to hell." From places and things he descended to personalities: Syngman Rhee was "a throttler and choker of the Korean people," Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong "a jerk and a lackey," Dag Hammarskjold "a fool" and President Dwight Eisenhower "a liar." As for the United Nations itself, "the U.N. is the U.S., it's all one; after all, it's a branch of the State Department...
Khrushchev's assiduous wooing of the small nations paid some dividends. Though they were still skittish about his attacks on Dag Hammarskjold, some of them listened attentively to Khrushchev's demand that the U.N. be redesigned and headed by a triumvirate of Western, Communist and neutral powers. In typically tentative fashion, Nehru argued, "The structure of the U.N. when it started was weighted in favor of Europe and the Americas. Although the executive should not be weakened, probably some structural changes would be desirable...