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...Delegate Adlai Stevenson detected a dangerous loophole. The resolution said nothing about banning foreign arms shipments into the Congo, nor did it authorize Hammarskjold's forces to search arriving planes or trucks for such contraband. Since the U.A.R. itself had been busily sneaking arms and equipment to Congo Rebel (and Russia's chosen puppet) Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville, Stevenson suspected the omission was deliberate, at least as far as the U.A.R. was concerned. Under pressure from the aroused Africans, who were in no mood to change their proposal, Stevenson finally had to vote for the measure, figuring that...
...Manpower Problem. The resolution did achieve the U.S.'s main goal-backing for Hammarskjold and strengthening of his mandate. He now had authority to get tough in pushing the squabbling, killing, Congolese factions apart...
...Congo combat force was already down to 17,500, would drop to 13,800 by mid-March if the Indonesian and Moroccan troop units pulled out and went home as planned. Needed was a minimum total of 20,000 men. On the day after the big debate, Dag Hammarskjold began recruiting among the Indians, Pakistanis, Iraqis and other Afro-Asian delegates...
...wake of Patrice Lumumba's murder, Kalonji's memory raced back to the days last fall when Lumumba ordered an assault on Kalonji's Baluba country, where his troops pillaged, raped and murdered at such a rate that Dag Hammarskjold himself called it genocide. Suddenly, Kalonji bethought himself of a dozen Lumumba aides and bullyboys he was holding. They had been sent to him for safekeeping by the Leopoldville Congolese authorities. He snatched them from jail, hauled them into Bakwanga's dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was having trouble on another stage. He collaborated on a Swedish translation of esoteric U.S. Writer Djuna Barnes's allusive verse play, The Antiphon, which opened in Stockholm. Critics thought the play largely unintelligible, though one exonerated Hammarskjold, explaining that the translation job was "overwhelmingly difficult-almost like bringing order to the Congo...