Word: hammarskjold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chiefly responsible for converting the U.N. from an ineffectual sounding board into an effective force for international order is Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, 55. Son of a Swedish Prime Minister and scion of one of Sweden's most famous families, sandy-haired Dag Hammarskjold is one of the world's most self-effacing men. To a post in which the confidence of others counts for everything, this poetry-loving economist (he was chairman of the Bank of Sweden at 36) brings icy impartiality and impenetrable discretion...
Presence Established. Inheriting the job of Secretary-General from Norway's Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold has become perhaps the world's most skillful diplomat. When East and West were glowering in immobilized anger, Hammarskjold quietly slipped into Peking in 1955 and negotiated the release of 15 captive U.S. flyers. When the British, French and Israelis attacked Egypt in 1956 and were told to retreat by the U.S., Hammarskjold organized the first world police force to keep order in the Middle East. Never making statements from which he would have to retreat, never committing others to public positions that they...
When the explosion came in the Congo, Hammarskjold was ready. He had just been round the continent making the indispensable contacts of confidence with the new leaders. At the request of the new Congo government, he had prepared a program of "technical assistance.' The man he appointed to get it started was Michigan-born Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, a colored man who could offer such assistance most gracefully. Bunche was on the job in Leopoldville when things blew...
Power & Light. In the face of Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba's wild shouts for help from Peking and Moscow, Hammarskjold quietly took charge. He did not wait for any nation to ask for a meeting of the Security Council; instead, using his authority under the charter's Article 99 for the first time, he called the Security Council into emergency session on his own motion. Obviously, if the great powers were allowed to send troops to the Congo, the cold war would be extended to the Congo. His recommendation: the U.N. force should be drawn primarily from "sister...
...council passed the resolution authorizing Hammarskjold to send military aid. At 3:30, Hammarskjold was in his office and set to work. Phones started jangling in foreign offices all around the world...