Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev seemed to suffer from a totalitarian's inability to listen to any point of view but his own. But then, he is not used to sitting quietly in parliamentary bodies where everyone may speak freely in turn. As the week began, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. emboldened by the Assembly's 70-0 vote endorsing his policies in the Congo, briefly but eloquently punctured Khrushchev's proposal to abolish the office of Secretary-General in favor of a veto-ridden three-man directorate. Implicitly accusing the Soviets of trying to oust him because he had opposed...
...establish himself as the friend and protector of all the uncommitted. His plan to replace the office of Secretary-General with a three-headed executive composed of one Westerner, one Communist and one neutralist was more than just a scheme to get rid of Dag Hammarskjold and reduce the U.N. to impotence; it was also calculated to appeal to neutralist vanities. So was the disarmament ploy that he unveiled at midweek: an offer to resume the discussions that Russia walked out of last June, provided that the ten-nation Disarmament Committee was expanded by five to include Indonesia, Mexico, Ghana...
...this apparent inability to act conclusively on major issues, the Secretary General has emerged as the chief political agent of the U.N., Morgenthau declared. The recent attack of Khrushchev threatens the security of Dag Hammarskjold. However, the Secretary General was overwhelmingly supported in an Assembly vote and seems likely to withstand the Soviet barrage...
...address to the Assembly, Hammarskjold made it clear why the Africans and Asians are supporting his conception of the U.N. For in the speech, Hammarskjold declared that the UN exists as much for the small and the new states as for the great and the old. He believes passionately that it is the UN's role to protect these states and maintain them in the teeth of the cold war. He will not quit, will not allow Khrushchev to hamstring the world body because he knows that the UN--his UN--requires an executive powerful enough to resist pressures from...
...future--if there is a future--Mr. Hammarskjold will be called a great man. Historians will recall that he was decisive in shaping the United Nations into something more than an arena for propaganda cock fights at a time when something more was desperately needed. They will say that he strengthened the only positive deterrent to war in a world where the peace was a consensus of terror...