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...Moscow, the Russians revealed that their immediate target was U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. operation in the Congo. In a savage 1,500-word statement, they attacked Hammarskjold as an "imperialist lackey" and an "accomplice and organizer of murder," and demanded that he be thrown out of office. Simultaneously, Moscow announced immediate recognition of the Communist-backed Stanleyville rebel regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, onetime Vice Premier in the Lumumba government, and promised "all possible assistance and support" for it. To an anxious world, it seemed a clear threat that Russia was ready to intervene physically...
...Hammarskjold, intoned Zorin, "the Secretary-General has directly participated in the collective plans of the colonizers whose final goal is to stifle the young African republic . . . there is not the slightest justification for considering that he has seen the light and is prepared to change his course." Zorin's target was as much the office of Secretary-General as the man who occupied it. Last October, during Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging visit to the General Assembly, the Soviet Premier had proclaimed his dislike of Hammarskjold ("We do not trust Mr. Hammarskjold and cannot trust him"), demanded that...
...Zorin attacked him, Hammarskjold sat toying with a pencil or puffing on a cigarette. Russia, said Zorin, would henceforth refuse to have any dealing with Hammarskjold, would address all business to a Deputy Secretary-General, Russia's Georgy Arkadev. It was a gambit that the Russians had also tried on Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve Lie, who lost Russia's favor in 1950 when he supported the U.N.'s defense of South Korea. Lie weathered Moscow's snubs until November 1952, but finally found it impossible to continue in his post...
...Last Word. Hammarskjold's own job is safe until his term expires in April 1963, for there is no provision for the Secretary-General's impeachment. But would he too finally quit rather than endure the endless Soviet slaps? No, said Hammarskjold to the tense delegates. His voice was low, his face stonily impassive, his words edged. "It is ironic for us, who have been guided solely by the interests of the Congo . . . to be attacked by those who pursue entirely different aims,'' said Hammarskjold caustically. "By resigning, I would, at the present difficult and dangerous...
Adlai Stevenson leaped immediately to Hammarskjold's defense. "The issue is simply this: Shall the United Nations survive? Shall the attempt to bring about peace by the concerted power of international understanding be discarded?'' As for Hammarskjold himself, "he needs no defense from me. His record is an open book . . . Let the Soviet government, if it wishes, pretend that he does not exist; it will find that he is far from a disembodied ghost, and it will find that peace-loving states will continue to support his patient search for the right road to security and peace...