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Khrushchev seemed to suffer from a totalitarian's inability to listen to any point of view but his own. But then, he is not used to sitting quietly in parliamentary bodies where everyone may speak freely in turn. As the week began, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. emboldened by the Assembly's 70-0 vote endorsing his policies in the Congo, briefly but eloquently punctured Khrushchev's proposal to abolish the office of Secretary-General in favor of a veto-ridden three-man directorate. Implicitly accusing the Soviets of trying to oust him because he had opposed...
...establish himself as the friend and protector of all the uncommitted. His plan to replace the office of Secretary-General with a three-headed executive composed of one Westerner, one Communist and one neutralist was more than just a scheme to get rid of Dag Hammarskjold and reduce the U.N. to impotence; it was also calculated to appeal to neutralist vanities. So was the disarmament ploy that he unveiled at midweek: an offer to resume the discussions that Russia walked out of last June, provided that the ten-nation Disarmament Committee was expanded by five to include Indonesia, Mexico, Ghana...
...this apparent inability to act conclusively on major issues, the Secretary General has emerged as the chief political agent of the U.N., Morgenthau declared. The recent attack of Khrushchev threatens the security of Dag Hammarskjold. However, the Secretary General was overwhelmingly supported in an Assembly vote and seems likely to withstand the Soviet barrage...
...after its beginning, the League of Nations was a scrap of paper, and the world was lurching and reeling towards war. That there is still hope for peace today, fifteen years after the founding of the United Nations, is due in great part to the efforts of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. The recent drama in the General Assembly and the failure of the Soviet plan to weaken Hammarskjold's authority illustrate to what extent this extraordinary man has defined his own role in world politics...
...Nikita Khrushchev paid last week for not realizing this. He thought he could play on the Africans' hatred for colonialism as a cloak to take over the Congo and set himself up as the champion of all Africa. When crossed, he turned on the U.N. and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who had thwarted him. As the Baltika neared Manhattan, Khrushchev discovered his error...