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Twenty-seven years in India's elite civil service gave brilliant, Oxford-trained Rajeshwar Dayal an elegant diplomatic manner and endless Oriental patience. But this was hardly enough to prepare Dayal for the heat, hatred and hurly-burly of central Africa when U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold named him chief of the U.N. mission in the Congo last August. Almost before Dayal had settled into his glass-walled office in Léopoldville, chaos broke around his head. Erratic Patrice Lumumba wanted protection in his refuge in the Premier's residence. From his own villa near by, President...
...lessons to be learned from the fiasco that has been called a Cuban policy, the need for readjustment is certainly the main one Castro, as well as Kennedy, realizes that Cuban autonomy is at stake. Recent Cuban votes against Russia on the Congo and on the removal of Hammarskjold lend hope that the Prime Minister fears a loss of cherished independence on the left...
Everyone demanded a right to dictate the way to peace in the Congo, but few wanted to pay for the privilege. For weeks U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had pleaded, cajoled, warned and wheedled in the effort to rake up funds for his 20,000-man Congo force. But member nations still owed $24 million for his 1960 operations alone, not to mention the $120 million he would have to spend this year. Of the U.N.'s 99 members, only six (Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada, Britain, the U.S.) had paid or promised to pay any of last year...
Then he wanted the Assembly to recognize the "legitimate government" of Antoine Gizenga, Red-backed boss of Eastern Province. This was not all. Gromyko went on to denounce Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold as a "murderer" and a "stooge" who must be fired forthwith...
...delegates listened in silence as the big nations lobbed angry rhetoric back and forth. But the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson plainly had widespread support when he characterized Gromyko's speech as "in the worst and most destructive traditions of the cold war.'' As for Hammarskjold. said Stevenson, the U.S. would support him "with all our strength." Through it all, Hammarskjold himself sat impassively, looking like a man who had other problems to worry about. He had. One of them is the future of the U.N. operations boss in the Congo. Indian Diplomat Rajeshwar Dayal, whose inflexible...