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...Globals. Hammarskjold's always correct, publicly nonpartisan stand against the "big shoe-thumping fellow" plainly showed his mettle. And yet, his concept of a strong U.N. executive had detractors, even angry foes, in the West as well as the East. Many Britons were bitter at U.N. "interference" during and after the Suez crisis in 1956. France's President de Gaulle, who sniffs his contempt for the "socalled United Nations," had grudging respect for Hammarskjold the man, but still heaped scorn on that whole vast category of what he calls apatrides-nonnationals whose patriotism is global, not local...
...Finally, Hammarskjold's heavy and ultimately tragic military intervention in Katanga aroused more Western antagonism than almost anything else he had done. That failure was not merely an error of military judgment, but could be traced back directly to the inherent confusion about the U.N.'s function and powers in the world. Thus the U.S. is faced not merely with Russia's perennial wrecking tactics; the U.N. after all can serve as an extremely useful mirror to show these tactics to the world. Nor is the U.S. merely faced with the political irresponsibility of the "new" nations...
Ultimately the U.S. faces in the U.N. a dilemma of political philosophy and law which, long before the present Hammarskjold crisis, led many Americans to think that Washington should place less reliance on the U.N. There is near unanimity among U.S. policymakers that everything must be done to save the U.N.; there is also growing awareness that, at the same time, other instruments of world order must be strengthened...
...half years later, the West threatened the same tactics to force Russian acceptance of Dag Hammarskjold. U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge marched up to Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and said: "If you don't take Hammarskjold, we'll continue Lie's term." Only then did Russia allow Hammarskjold's candidacy to get through the Security Council...
...small church of a copper-belt town in Northern Rhodesia, Dag Hammarskjold lay in state...