Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building for a 7 p.m. meeting with his staff. At 9, he was closeted with the four small-nation members (currently Ceylon, Tunisia, Argentina, Ecuador) of the eleven-man Security Council. Tunisia's dapper Mongi Slim assumed the role of floor leader in the fight for the resolution Hammarskjold wanted-one which would press the Belgians to withdraw "immediately" from Katanga but would promise Tshombe that their replacement by U.N. forces would not compromise Katanga's secession effort...
...representatives of nine African states had joined Hammarskjold in his 38th floor dining room looking out over the thrusting towers of midtown Manhattan. Some of the Africans angrily demanded that the U.N. fight its way into Katanga. Trading on his status as a fellow Afro-Asian, Tunisia's Slim forcefully argued the Hammarskjold line that an appeal to force would lead to a Security...
...same morning Hammarskjold also had a long conversation with Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov, who was strongly urging armed entry into Katanga, hoping thereby to drive a wedge into the NATO powers, who would have to line up on different sides of such a resolution. Ham marskjold gambled that the Russians would extract every possible drop of propaganda advantage from their bluster but that they would not oppose the African states in a showdown-and perhaps he got a wink that told...
...Dawn. When he finally entered the wide blue and gold council chamber, Dag Hammarskjold looked, as always, calm and cool. But there was a strain in his tired voice, and his words, usually oblique and professional, this time were plain and full of passion. The Congo, said Hammarskjold with chilling precision, is "a question of peace or war, and when saying peace or war, I do not limit my perspective to the Congo." Bluntly he portioned out blame to Belgium for dragging its feet, to the Congo for its impatience, and strongly criticized governments-unnamed-which threatened to take matters...
...with France and Italy abstaining, the U.N. Security Council by a vote of 9-0 gave Dag Hammarskjold the resolution he wanted...