Word: hammarskjold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finding the Ford. Convinced that their hero had indeed been done in, eleven pro-Lumumba nations (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Libya, India, Indonesia, U.A.R., Ceylon, Russia and Yugoslavia) petitioned the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold for an immediate investigation. Moscow radio-which has reason to be expert in such matters-went on the air with a prediction that the whole escape story had been manufactured as a cover ("shot while escaping") to explain away the fact that Lumumba would be found dead. In Katanga, Moise Tshombe, busy in conferences with a visiting foreign dignitary, seemed totally unconcerned. "President Tshombe does...
...line between diplomacy and hypocrisy fades now as the turmoil in the Congo is aggravated and the political eulogizers smack their lips. Hammarskjold calls for an investigation-too late. Soviet Ambassador Zorin attempts to make Premier Khrushchev the hero of the affair. And American statesmen, witnessing the logical result of their Congo policy, hollowly express shock...
...Already Hammarskjold had approached India to supervise the disarming of the Congolese troops, and he hoped to win support for his plan from Ghana, Nigeria and other African nations. But would the squabbling faction leaders go along? Exploded General Mobutu: "We will never allow it. The U.N. is playing with fire...
...Hammarskjold's new plan was full of dangerous risks. The major problem was how to prevent any further meddling by outsiders. The U.S. was prepared to admonish Belgium against contributing any more bombs, planes or pilots to Tshombe. But the real danger was Soviet Russia. Was Nikita Khrushchev sufficiently eager for warmer relations with the U.S. to agree to keep hands off in the Congo? Russia's first big grab had been halted last September. But, though Kasavubu and Mobutu had ordered the Russians out, the Russians have gone on clandestinely helping pro-Lumumba forces...
...Lumumba is released and regains power, who is to stop him from inviting the Russians back into the Congo, bearing arms, aid and advice? Could Hammarskjold's balky U.N. troops? From past experience, it seemed unlikely. Then the U.S. would be confronted by the very situation it sought to prevent-Soviet power firmly planted in the heart of Africa...