Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy went to meet Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna hoping to find some give in the Soviet position. Khrushchev would not budge. "This is a basic Soviet position and not negotiable," said Nikita firmly. He was frank to admit that it all began last year, when U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was able to maneuver the Reds out of the Congo. It was at the shoe-banging U.N. General Assembly session in September that Khrushchev first broached the troika idea, demanding that the U.N. Secretariat be run not by one man, but by a team of three secretaries. Since then Moscow...
Twenty-seven years in India's elite civil service gave brilliant, Oxford-trained Rajeshwar Dayal an elegant diplomatic manner and endless Oriental patience. But this was hardly enough to prepare Dayal for the heat, hatred and hurly-burly of central Africa when U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold named him chief of the U.N. mission in the Congo last August. Almost before Dayal had settled into his glass-walled office in Léopoldville, chaos broke around his head. Erratic Patrice Lumumba wanted protection in his refuge in the Premier's residence. From his own villa near by, President...
...When Hammarskjold called Dayal back to U.N. Manhattan headquarters for "consultation" in March, nearly everybody sighed with relief. U.N. relations with the Congolese improved spectacularly, and the U.S. gently urged Hammarskjold to keep Dayal in Manhattan indefinitely. Finally, last week, controversial Rajeshwar Dayal announced his resignation. As soon as he can pack his bags, he will return to his old job as India's High Commissioner to Pakistan, where good diplomatic manners and endless Oriental patience still had a certain value...
...lessons to be learned from the fiasco that has been called a Cuban policy, the need for readjustment is certainly the main one Castro, as well as Kennedy, realizes that Cuban autonomy is at stake. Recent Cuban votes against Russia on the Congo and on the removal of Hammarskjold lend hope that the Prime Minister fears a loss of cherished independence on the left...
Everyone demanded a right to dictate the way to peace in the Congo, but few wanted to pay for the privilege. For weeks U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had pleaded, cajoled, warned and wheedled in the effort to rake up funds for his 20,000-man Congo force. But member nations still owed $24 million for his 1960 operations alone, not to mention the $120 million he would have to spend this year. Of the U.N.'s 99 members, only six (Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada, Britain, the U.S.) had paid or promised to pay any of last year...