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...international police force landed at Abou Suweir air base-196 men: 45 Danes, 97 Norwegians and 54 Colombians. They were the first of a projected 6.000. Along with the Colombians came the man who had brought this historic force into being: a slight-shouldered, sandy-haired Swedish civilian named Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold...
...Letter. If the U.N. succeeds in evolving into something more, the shape it takes will owe much to Dag Hammarskjold. As Secretary-General of the United Nations, Hammarskjold holds a job whose very title carries overtones of impotence. Today, however, what was originally conceived of as the world's top civil-service berth ($20,000 a year tax free and $35,000 for expenses) shows promise of developing into an executive post of potentially immense power. Partly, this is a matter of impersonal historic forces-among them the tendency of a frightened legislature to yearn for a strong executive...
Skillfully, Swedish U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold set about raising the small-power force prescribed by the General Assembly. Within the week he had arranged with seven governments to provide policing troops. The U.S. Defense Department was ready with planes and equipment to ferry some of the force into operation. Switzerland (which is not a U.N. member) was so scared out of its neutrality that it made arrangements for Swissair to airlift 400 men a day from Italy to Cairo...
...Swift. By week's end the race seemed to be going to the swift. Dag Hammarskjold. working for peace with the kind of quiet effectiveness that would win medals in war, did not wait for the necessary final consent from Egypt's Premier Nasser to assemble the first big contingent of policemen. He set up a U.N. staging area outside Naples, began assembling there 6,000 soldiers from Denmark, Norway, Canada, Colombia. Finland. India and Sweden, for the hop into the Suez area. As they got set. Russia put out a warning that its "volunteers'" would...
...roused by a secretary carrying the hectoring threat from Russia's Bulganin: "We are fully determined to crush the aggressors and restore peace in the East through the use of force." Minutes later, a worried Guy Mollet called from Paris. Then a message arrived from U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold announcing that both Egypt and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire. Eden summoned some of his advisers, did not get back to bed until...