Word: hammarskjold
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...survival. The clouds of war still gathered over Berlin. In Southeast Asia, Communist Viet Cong guerrillas increased the bloody pace of their raids on the communities of South Viet Nam. In Manhattan, the U.S. worked tirelessly to preserve the United Nations, suddenly bereft of its capable Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold...
Even for John Kennedy, it was an arduous week of activity. It began with word of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's setback in West Germany. Then came the news of Dag Hammarskjold's death. The next day, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko began their cautious, first-round sparring about Berlin. Across the U.S., like malevolent mist, drifted the fallout from the Russian nuclear test shots, which by week's end had reached...
...these words, , the eyes of the listening delegates flickered to the place on Mongi Slim's right-Dag Hammarskjold's empty chair...
...South Tyrol terrorism and the future of Ruanda-Urundi. Everyone was only too eager to dump all the issues on the U.N.'s desks, whether there was any real prospect of solution or not. But all the possible agenda items seemed to fade beside the loss of Dag Hammarskjold. Every delegate knew that the whole future of the U.N. as a meaningful force for peace was in jeopardy. The U.N. now might well again become what it was all too often before the Hammarskjold era-a glass-and-steel soapbox...
...Francisco conference no common law, no common principle, no common view of man or the world-only a ritualistic insistence that mankind must have some sort of security from war.* After years of worldwide incantations about support for the U.N. and worldwide disillusionment with its performance, Dag Hammarskjold did one thing-he reduced the great but impossible hope of U.N. as the molder of world peace to the small but possible hope of U.N. as an arbiter, and even a policeman, in relatively minor trouble areas where the interests of the great nations were not directly involved...