Word: hammarskjold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...culmination of a long series of wrongful acts by these officers, including the organization of attacks on the United Nations, repeated threats, and incitements to violence." O'Brien issued an ultimatum: remove all remaining white officers, or else. When Tshombe flatly refused, U.N. troops went into action, while Hammarskjold, who had just arrived for a personal inspection, waited in Léopoldville...
...that the U.N.'s O'Brien, presumably with the full approval of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, had started in an attempt to bring Tshombe back under the authority of the Congo central government and thus head off a possible civil war. As the fighting raged on, it carried the United Nations into the new, uncomfortable-and, to some critics, indefensible-position of active aggressor on a large scale...
...care if the United Nations likes that or not." The U.S. cautiously supported the U.N. operation, finally urged that fighting be stopped. Radio Moscow charged that the U.N. did not really want to oust Tshombe and unite the Congo. And there were those who wondered if Dag Hammarskjold's U.N. forces would have been as ready to fight if Gizenga and not Tshombe had seceded...
...week's end, Hammarskjold, jolted by the military setbacks and looking drawn and pale after three days of harried talks in Léopoldville, got another jolt from across the Congo River in Brazzaville. His scheduled take-off for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York was forbidden by authorities in the former French Congo, who said that they could not guarantee his safety "because of the discontent and agitation provoked by events in Katanga." When Hammarskjold heard the news, his only reaction was to stare vacantly in the direction of an Indian pipe drum...
...common agreement, the Congo is the U.N.'s greatest opportunity to establish its competence in the creation of a new order in a confused world. But some times there is serious question as to what kind of order the U.N.'s Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold proposes to create. Last week, under the authority of a Security Council resolution calling for the removal of all Belgian officers from the Congo, U.N. troops staged an extraordinary operation...