Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning, the League of Nations was a scrap of paper, and the world was lurching and reeling towards war. That there is still hope for peace today, fifteen years after the founding of the United Nations, is due in great part to the efforts of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. The recent drama in the General Assembly and the failure of the Soviet plan to weaken Hammarskjold's authority illustrate to what extent this extraordinary man has defined his own role in world politics...
...office is really his; he has been creating it every day. Although the Secretary-General has a constitutional right under the UN Charter to send troops to the Congo, for example, a lesser man than Hammarskjold would have hesitated. And on Oct. 3, when Premier Khrushchev demanded that he resign and proposed the plan to neutralize his office, Hammarskjold characteristically refused--and won a standing ovation from the General Assembly. Equally important, Prime Minister Nehru's speech was symbolic of a growing respect the African and Asian nations entertain for the Secretary-General...
Nothing that simple was going to satisfy Castro-planting the suspicion that his whole maneuver had been planned earlier. Even before he checked in at the Shelburne, his agents had begun negotiations with the Hotel Theresa, "the Waldorf-Astoria of Harlem." While the bearded Cuban was bending Hammarskjold's ear, one of his men turned up at the Theresa delivering $840 in cash-one day's rent for an assorted selection of the Theresa's rooms. This was more than the ordinary Harlem citizen would have been charged for the same supply of beds-and $440 more...
...Khrushchev paid last week for not realizing this. He thought he could play on the Africans' hatred for colonialism as a cloak to take over the Congo and set himself up as the champion of all Africa. When crossed, he turned on the U.N. and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who had thwarted him. As the Baltika neared Manhattan, Khrushchev discovered his error...
...incident seemed undramatic. As the Assembly got ready to vote, Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana-a nation on which Khrushchev was counting heavily-rose from his seat. In clipped British accents, he asked Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin to drop his resolution condemning Hammarskjold for exceeding his powers in the Congo. Stunned, Zorin meekly complied, then sat in frozen silence as the Assembly, by a historic vote of 70 to 0, gave Hammarskjold a ringing endorsement and demanded that no nation ship arms to the Congo except through...