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...drawing his 20,000-man force largely from African and uncommitted Asian nations, Dag Hammarskjold had staved off the major calamity of a confrontation of the great powers in the Congo. But Hammarskjold had not reckoned with the meddling and intrigues of some of Africa's ambitious new leaders. Chief meddlers were Cairo's Nasser, Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Sékou Touré, all of whom were working earnestly for Lumumba's return. In recent weeks, their troops have been openly taking sides in the Congo's internal squabble. The U.A.R...
...Manhattan, the U.N.'s Hammarskjold sent cable after cable pleading for troop contributions from Mexico, Iraq, Iran and India, but got solid pledges from nobody. The new U.N. Congo Commander, Ireland's Lieut. General Sean McKeown, warned that the present 20,000-man force was the "bare minimum requirement" to prevent civil war. At week's end Hammarskjold gloomily informed the Security Council that unless replacement troops were forthcoming, he might have to propose "liquidation of the force, and in consequence, the entire United Nations Congo operation...
Once assembled in Casablanca's ornate city hall, the leaders needed only nine hours to come up with "concrete solutions" to the Congo problem. All Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. need do, they said, was spring Russian-backed Patrice Lumumba from jail and restore him as Premier, evacuate all Belgian armed forces, reconvene the Congolese parliament and completely outlaw any separatist movements like that in mineral-rich Katanga province. If Hammarskjold refused to accept their blueprint, they threatened to pick up their soldiers (some 6,500 men, or one-third of the U.N. force in the Congo...
Back in Léopoldville, President Joseph Kasavubu sat down grimly with visiting U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who flew in from Manhattan to urge the regime to reconvene Parliament and give imprisoned Patrice Lumumba a fair trial. As they talked, rowdy groups of pro-Lumumba and pro-Kasavubu men shouted at and slugged one another outside U.N. headquarters. It was hardly a favorable atmosphere for promises of peace, but the stolid President grandly announced he would give it another try-with a round-table conference of all Congolese leaders on Jan. 25. Lumumba's own variety of roundup...
Morocco, Guinea and others were criticizing Hammarskjold, and talked of taking their forces out of the U.N. command. Ghana wanted Africans to form an "African command" of their...