Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were packing their bags and heading home in defeat in one of the indelible and humiliating scenes of the cold war (TIME, Sept. 26). Even as his contingent arrived on Manhattan Island, the U.N., in one overwhelming 70-0 vote, slapped down the Russian-led attempt to discredit Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. itself in the Congo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...blasted those countries (i.e., the Soviets and satellites) that would undermine the U.N. for their own ends, renewed his call for disarmament talks, detailed an elaborate program to aid Africa, proposed a plan to safeguard outer space against military use, sounded again and again the U.S. support of Hammarskjold and U.N. policies in Africa (see box). When he finished, most delegates again warmly applauded him, while the Communists sat on their hands...
Whatever the measure of applause, Khrushchev's speech struck Western delegates-and even many Africans-as third-rate propaganda spiced with "absurd" proposals, not the least of which was the suggestion that the emerging African nations, which owed so much to the U.N., should oust Hammarskjold...
Advance Payment. This alone so angered Secretary of State Christian Herter that he made his way to Hammarskjold's office to see whether the rules would permit calling immediately for a vote of confidence in the Secretary-General; he was told that it was impractical. To prove U.S. good intentions, he then handed Hammarskjold a U.S. check for $5,000,000, an advance payment on the U.S. contribution to U.N. costs in the Congo, and assured him that additional funds would be made available. Herter was still steamed up when he answered reporters' questions at a Foreign Press...
Nothing Simple. With escort sirens screaming, Castro raced to the U.N., burst into Secretary Dag Hammarskjold's office and subjected the patient Swede to three-quarters of an hour of hoarse, ululating Spanish. Only the day before, New York cops had eased him back into his limousine when he wanted to stop along the highway from Idlewild Airport to harangue loyal Cubans who had turned out to greet him in the rain. He railed against Manhattan's lack of hospitality; he denounced the Shelburne's demand for a $10,000 bond to pay for possible damage...