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Thus began a U.N. era that lasted roughly a decade and was characterized by 1) more or less secure Western ascendancy over the Assembly and 2) the forceful personality of Dag Hammarskjöld, who took initiatives that few of the U.N.'s founders had visualized as part of the office of Secretary-General. His U.N., of course, was useless if the vital interests of a major power were at stake: when Russia brutally suppressed the Hungarian uprising, the Assembly could only pass resolutions of censure. But the Hammarskjold decade saw two operations in which the U.N., for better...
...important lesser ways. It will continue to be an occasional peacemaker in smaller disputes; a decompression chamber even for large quarrels; a forum for the views, right or wrong, of all nations; and a reminder, as nagging as conscience, of the dream of world order. The U.N., as Dag Hammarskjökl used to say, only mirrors the world as it really is-its idealism and its baseness, its nobility and its savagery...
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...Retreat. This is what he told the church in his inaugural sermon, in which he also cited the late Dag Hammarskjöld's aphorism: "In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." The time has passed, said Hines, when Christians can retreat within their ecclesiastical for tress to recite prayers and polish brass. "The church is caught up today in the throes of a worldwide convulsion, the basic ferment of which is the thrust for freedom and dignity and hope on the part of the little people of the world. The church...