Word: hammarskjold
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Wearing the Colors. The Administration scored a considerable diplomatic victory over the U.S.S.R. in the United Nations when a big majority-including three Afro-Asian nations-voted to back up Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in the Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS). This was a heavy blow to loudly proclaimed Soviet intentions to get Hammarskjold and the United Nations out of the Congo. There was no crowing over the victory. (Both the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled their press conferences.) Instead. Kennedy called in Secretary Rusk and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson. He publicly sent Thompson...
Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin seized the chance to press for his blunt resolution calling for Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's ouster, and for the U.N.'s exit from the Congo within a month. He was defeated before he started, but plowed doggedly on. Brandishing a magazine showing Hammarskjold and Katanga's Belgium-backed Moise Tshombe together in the same photo (taken as Hammarskjold led the first U.N. troops into Katanga last August), Zorin suggested that it proved that Dag was "allied" with "a Belgian puppet"; this brought weary grins from everyone at the horseshoe table, including Hammarskjold...
...Delegate Adlai Stevenson detected a dangerous loophole. The resolution said nothing about banning foreign arms shipments into the Congo, nor did it authorize Hammarskjold's forces to search arriving planes or trucks for such contraband. Since the U.A.R. itself had been busily sneaking arms and equipment to Congo Rebel (and Russia's chosen puppet) Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville, Stevenson suspected the omission was deliberate, at least as far as the U.A.R. was concerned. Under pressure from the aroused Africans, who were in no mood to change their proposal, Stevenson finally had to vote for the measure, figuring that...
...Manpower Problem. The resolution did achieve the U.S.'s main goal-backing for Hammarskjold and strengthening of his mandate. He now had authority to get tough in pushing the squabbling, killing, Congolese factions apart...
...managed to tarnish the image of the U.N., and to diminish the effectiveness of its Secretary-General, even though the small nations rallied to Hammarskjold's defense. But Khrushchev also had his failures. The uncommitted nations refused to stampede. And if his actions were designed to test the mettle and temper of the new Kennedy Administration, he found it unmistakably firm...