Word: hammarskjold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short talk with Dwight Eisenhower, hurried back to lunch with Vice President Johnson and talk with Speaker Sam Rayburn on Capitol Hill, entertained Kennedy at an eight-course Mandarin dinner. Then he flew off to Manhattan, where he made a tour of Chinatown and met with U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. Heading home this week, after stops in Chicago and San Francisco, Chen would take with him a briefcase full of unresolved diplomatic problems. But thanks to John Kennedy's firm statement that the U.S. view of Red China has not changed, he would also take a clearer, more hopeful...
Seated in a Lincoln sedan flying the U.N. flag, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold drove through the battle wreckage of Bizerte. Along the way, Tunisian troops presented arms. When the car reached a French roadblock, a paratrooper flagged down the Lincoln. "Who is this personage?" he demanded. Unimpressed on learning Dag's identity, the private poked his head inside the car, ostensibly looking for weapons. Then he ordered the chauffeur to open the trunk compartment. White with anger, Hammarskjold snapped: "You are probably unaware of the fact that I have diplomatic immunity." Replied the paratrooper: "I have my orders." While...
Charles de Gaulle, who contemptuously refers to the U.N. as "ce machin" (thingumbob), was making it clear to its Secretary-General that he should keep his nose out of what France considers its own affairs. After all, Paris pointed out, the Tunisians fired the first shot. When Hammarskjold tried to see Admiral Maurice Amman, the French commander in Bizerte, he was curtly told that no interview was possible. Hammarskjold sent a message to De Gaulle proposing a private meeting in Paris. A Quai d'Orsay spokesman replied with a piece of calculated insolence such as only the French...
...President Habib Bourguiba, the intransigent stand of the French can spell political extinction. At the funeral of Tunisians killed in the fighting, he solemnly pledged, over the very bodies of the dead, that he would get the French out of Bizerte. In two hour-long talks with Hammarskjold, Bourguiba explained that he had to make good his promise or go under...
...Rejecting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand that a three-man secretariat replace Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold as head of the U.N., the U.S. promised to use its veto to preserve the status quo. Russia's "troika" proposal, argued Rusk, not only "flies in the face of everything we know about effective administration" but attacks "the equal rights and opportunities now enjoyed by all members of the General Assembly-and the protection afforded them by the U.N.'s peace-keeping machinery...