Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valerian Zorin introduced a new motion in the Security Council, demanding Lumumba's immediate release from jail and reinstallation as Premier. Moreover, said Zorin, the U.N. should get out of the Congo and let the peace-loving Congolese handle things themselves. Continuing Khrushchev's campaign to destroy Hammarskjold, Zorin said of the phlegmatic man at his side: "We must note once again that Mr. Hammarskjold speaks and acts like the colonizers...
Seeking to divert attention from this humiliation. Nkrumah fired off a note to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold charging the U.S., Britain and France with supporting a Belgian effort to regain control of the Congo. Then he advised the U.N. haughtily that he had proposed to nine other African nations* the formation of an independent African military command to handle such difficult assignments in the future. Since he had not invited such unsympathetic nations as Nigeria (most populous country in Africa) or those of the French Community (except for Mali), he avoided the risk of a mass rejection; but even...
Fortnight ago Dag Hammarskjold warned the U.N.'s 99 member nations that his treasury was "virtually empty." He got respectful enough sympathy from everyone else, but as usual, it was the U.S. that quietly put up the $20 million, which should carry the U.N. through to the end of the year...
...Ghana's contempt for its bigger Johnny-come-lately rival, Nigeria, less than two months after winning its independence, is on its way to becoming one of the major forces in Africa. Nigeria's dynamic U.N. Ambassador Jaja Wachuku is chairman of Dag Hammarskjold's Congo Conciliation Commission. A number of African nations, notably those of the French Community, are beginning to sidle up to Nigeria in visible relief at the emergence of a counterweight to the firebrands of Ghana and Guinea. And Abubakar himself has begun the wheeling and dealing abroad expected of a sovereign nation...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold told the General Assembly that the U.N. Congo command was virtually bankrupt, largely because of the refusal of the Soviet Union to contribute, and would have to suspend operations unless someone (a euphemism for the U.S.) anteed up $22 million forthwith...