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...Hammarskjold pushed that hope to its limits, and perhaps beyond, in the Congo. It is likely that, had he lived, his effectiveness as Secretary-General might have been near its end, anyway. The fact remains that as the exponent of the limited hope he had performed great service, the best measure of which was that the Russians had vowed to destroy him and his office ever since last year when he moved U.N. troops into the chaotic Congo, thus preventing a Moscow-run regime. A favorite motto of his was a quotation from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; one should...
...only economically but backward in their acquaintance with liberty, their experience in government, and their ability to defend themselves. That is the setting of the battle which Secretary of State Dean Rusk, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson, and President Kennedy himself were fighting in the aftermath of Hammarskjold's death...
Tears in the Lobby. When the news of Hammarskjold's missing plane clattered into Manhattan on the Telex line direct from Leopoldville, shocked secretariat officials rushed to the cable room on the U.N. skyscraper's 38th floor, hovered anxiously for hours over the machine. When the final bulletin confirmed the Secretary's death, one high-ranking officer turned to another. "I suppose we should lower the flag." he said dully. "Yes." replied the other, "perhaps we should." Below, news was already spreading from floor to floor. Pale and shaken employees gathered in groups in the corridors...
From his wood-paneled suite high above Manhattan, Hammarskjold had operated his international civil service (5,000 employees in scores of countries) with quiet efficiency. He could fix a diplomat's parking ticket with the New York police, arrange the cleaning of the 5,400 windows at U.N. headquarters, send food to famine areas, or mediate a Middle East war threat with the same dispassionate precision. But in a rare lapse, as he left for the Congo fortnight ago, Hammarskjold had failed to designate an Acting Secretary-General to run the shop in his absence...
Kiss of Death. Hardly had the news of Hammarskjold's death arrived when Ambassador Stevenson met with his delegation staff, decided on a drive to install quickly some respected U.N. figure-probably an African or Asian-as a temporary administrator. Stevenson knew that it was useless to press for a permanent new Secretary-General, who is formally appointed by the Assembly but who must first get clearance in the veto-bound Security Council. There the Russians would inevitably climb into their troika-their insistent demand that the office of Secretary-General be replaced by a three-man, veto-bound...