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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...
Though Russia's Arkady Sobolev routinely charged that the U.S., Britain and France were engaged in a "colonialist conspiracy," in the end Russia was forced to vote for the resolution, which passed 8-0 (Britain, France and Nationalist China abstained). Within hours, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had the first contingents of a 6,000-man force on their...
Secretary of State Christian Herter decided against arrest and prosecution, said Nixon, because it might embarrass Guest Khrushchev. Instead, the evidence was taken quietly to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. and within days Kirilyuk and his family were on their way home. There were no arrests, no speeches, no recriminations. Total score of Soviet diplomats known to have been kicked out by the U.S. in the past ten years: 15-eight from the Soviet embassy in Washington, seven from...