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...restrict it. Lord Home is quite right when he warns that tacit approval of Nehru's Goan adventure will open the door to a perilous new era of petty wars and territorial brigandage. But he is quite wrong in thinking that there is an alternative to the UN. Dag Hammarskjold wanted an active, vigorous UN executive who would settle explosive situations before international violence broke out--this concept is plainly offensive to Britain's Foreign Secretary. If the UN adopted the British theory of being simply conciliatory, simply a mediator, in the Congo, then it is fair to predict that...
...choice is the man who "dominated the news of that year and left an indelible mark-for good or ill-on history." As usual, our readers were invited to make their own nominations. Everybody from Dr. Dooley to Chubby Checker was nominated, but most frequently suggested were Dag Hammarskjold, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and either the U.S. or the Russian spacemen. Hammarskjold finished ahead in the popular vote with Kennedy second...
...hand. Dobrynin, a protégé of Gromyko's, was in the Soviet embassy in Washington for three years (11952-55) and served one year as minister-counselor. After returning to Russia, he went to the United Nations as under secretary to the late Dag Hammarskjold - and the highest ranking Russian on the U.N. staff. In 1960, he returned to Moscow, where he took charge of the American desk of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. A tall Ukrainian with receding, slightly greying hair, Dobrynin, 42, will be the first Soviet envoy to the U.S. who was born after...
...your readers for Man of the Year. I feel that he should be Man of the Year for his greed, which has cost the world the lives of two of the greatest men of this century: Patrice Lumumba-that rebellious son of the African soil-and Dag Hammarskjold...
...Belgian and other white soldiers (see box, p. 20) who were his major support. Finally last August, U.N. troops began an ill-fated action to force Tshombe ,to end his secession-an action that ended in a humiliating cease-fire maintaining the status quo and in Dag Hammarskjold's fatal air crash...