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...When Dag Hammarskjold first accepted the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations, he said: "Fate is what we make it." The fate which he suffered last week resulted ironically and tragically from his effort to fulfill the role he outlined in 1953: to be "an instrument, a catalyst, an inspirer," to facilitate cooperation among nations...
...Hammarskjold stepped from obscurity to fill this role with a talent the world had not yet recognized. An expert on finance whose translations of French verse won critical acclaim, he combined the resourcefulness of a diplomat with the vision of a poet. His vision, the philosophy of international cooperation which inspired his many expeditions of mediation and reconciliation, including his fatal mission to the Congo, found its fullest expression in the document which turned out to be his final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from...
...Hammarskjold emphasized that the static concept, that of a sounding-board for accusations, a sort of international steam valve, applies "to history and to the traditions of national policies of the past." But an international forum, which represented a tremendous advance 15 years ago, is no longer sufficient. Only a dynamic organization, in which governments unite for "more developed and increasingly effective forms of constructive international cooperation," can meet the challenges of a world which possesses the power of self-annihilation...
...care if the United Nations likes that or not." The U.S. cautiously supported the U.N. operation, finally urged that fighting be stopped. Radio Moscow charged that the U.N. did not really want to oust Tshombe and unite the Congo. And there were those who wondered if Dag Hammarskjold's U.N. forces would have been as ready to fight if Gizenga and not Tshombe had seceded...
...week's end, Hammarskjold, jolted by the military setbacks and looking drawn and pale after three days of harried talks in Léopoldville, got another jolt from across the Congo River in Brazzaville. His scheduled take-off for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York was forbidden by authorities in the former French Congo, who said that they could not guarantee his safety "because of the discontent and agitation provoked by events in Katanga." When Hammarskjold heard the news, his only reaction was to stare vacantly in the direction of an Indian pipe drum...