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...greatest colonial empire of the present day,'' as the New York Times put it-delivered a rambling 2½-hr. farrago that included a demand for a prompt end to colonial rule in the world's remaining colonies, and a sharp attack on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, calling for a triumvirate to take his place. Khrushchev seemed bent on destroying Hammarskjold's usefulness (calling him a lackey of the imperialist powers), as the Soviets had destroyed the usefulness of Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve...
...Congo were packing their bags and heading home in defeat in one of the indelible and humiliating scenes of the cold war (TIME, Sept. 26). Even as his contingent arrived on Manhattan Island, the U.N., in one overwhelming 70-0 vote, slapped down the Russian-led attempt to discredit Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. itself in the Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Nothing Simple. With escort sirens screaming, Castro raced to the U.N., burst into Secretary Dag Hammarskjold's office and subjected the patient Swede to three-quarters of an hour of hoarse, ululating Spanish. Only the day before, New York cops had eased him back into his limousine when he wanted to stop along the highway from Idlewild Airport to harangue loyal Cubans who had turned out to greet him in the rain. He railed against Manhattan's lack of hospitality; he denounced the Shelburne's demand for a $10,000 bond to pay for possible damage...
Zorin ended by demanding what amounted to a vote of censure of Hammarskjold and a directive sharply restricting his authority in the Congo. Dag Hammarskjold's usually impassive face flushed with anger. "My record is on the table," he said. "I stand by it . . . The U.N. is engaged in a major effort to give life and substance to the independence of the Congo. No misunderstandings, no misinformation, no misinterpretations of the actions of the U.N. should be permitted to hamper an operation the importance of which, I know, is fully appreciated by all those African countries which, with great...
Only Alternative. Springing to Dag Hammarskjold's defense, newly installed U.S. Delegate James Wadsworth (Cabot Lodge's successor) boomed: "U.S. policy in the Congo is simple. We support the U.N. wholeheartedly. We consider it the only satisfactory alternative to chaos, war and intervention." Bluntly, Wadsworth ticked off what he said were the real reasons for Soviet rage at Hammarskjold. By closing the Congo's airports and taking over the radio stations, the U.N. had weakened Premier Patrice Lumumba, whom Moscow had hoped to use as a cover for Soviet penetration of the new nation. If he fell...