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...only one of the most important modern influences on Jewish thought, but it has also affected scores of Christian thinkers-among them, Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Orthodoxy's Nikolai Berdyaev, Protestants Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. To Reinhold Niebuhr, he is "the greatest living Jewish philosopher." Dag Hammarskjold was Buber's disciple and Swedish translator...
...three-man U.N. committee that negotiated the Korean ceasefire, Pearson in 1952 was elected U.N. Assembly President. For his unruffled performance. Pearson was nominated by Denmark, with Britain and France, to succeed Lie as Secretary-General, once again was vetoed by the Russians. The job went to Dag Hammarskjold. In 1955 Pearson took off for Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov-something that no NATO Foreign Minister before him in the tense 1950s had done. Pearson talked trade with the Russians, "did my best to disabuse them of some of their ideas about Americans...
...quiet conference with Dulles, during a late General Assembly session, Pearson brought his idea forward "to prevent the deterioration of the conflict into war, and give the British and French a chance to get out with some kind of honor." He got Dulles' approval, sold the idea to Hammarskjold. President Eisenhower had already impressed on the British that they must back down. The Canadian resolution calling for "an emergency international United Nations force" passed 57-0, with 19 abstentions. Within two weeks, the first U.N. troops were on their...
During Thant's year in office he has managed to keep both sides happy most of the time. He brought more Russians into the Secretariat, began conferring regularly with his Soviet Under Secretary, whom his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had deliberately ignored. But when Russia failed to ante up for the Congo operation, Thant deplored the fact, to the satisfaction...
Thant's term of office will run until Nov. 3, 1966, five years from the date he took over as the "acting" successor to Hammarskjold. Thant was inclined to a full five-year hitch beginning last month...