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...most frustrated man in Manhattan last week was the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold. His Congo command, having backed all the main antagonists into corners, now seemed to be in full charge in Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations...
...Alignment. In Leopoldville, Western officials and diplomats were frankly bewildered at the strange turn of events. Best guess was that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was reacting to new and compelling pressures. In the face of Nikita Khrushchev's attack in the General Assembly, the new African nations had rallied to the defense of the U.N. and Hammarskjold himself. But the 70-0 Assembly vote upholding Hammarskjold obscured the fact that many Africans still felt that Lumumba was the legitimate head of the Congolese government. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea's Sekou Toure demanded Lumumba...
...Hammarskjold is known to feel that the entire success of the U.N. in the Congo depends on maintaining solid Afro-Asian support. And by virtue of last month's U.N. resolution, Africans will soon get an even larger voice in Congo affairs. A clause in the resolution set up a special "conciliation committee" made up largely of Africans, who soon will fly to the Congo. Was Hammarskjold anticipating that they would settle on Lumumba? Western diplomats could only guess. But the words and actions of Hammarskjold's men in the Congo clearly indicated that new instructions had crossed...
...their fire on the Belgians. They charged that 500 Belgians were arriving weekly on Sabena's nights from Europe, the aim being, as one U.N. report put it, "to re-establish the Belgian civil service and relegate United Nations technicians to lower echelons." Twice in two weeks Dag Hammarskjold sent sharp notes of protest to Belgium. Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny bluntly rejected the notes, argued that there was nothing wrong with bilateral technical aid to the Congo (Hammarskjold might reply that that was just what the Russians had said...
...poetry lover named Dag Hammarskjold, who, as a member of the Nobel jury for literature, reportedly nominated Saint-John Perse, might have won a Nobel Prize of his own but for the fate of the calendar. For his work in the Congo as U.N. Secretary-General, Hammarskjold was an obvious candidate for the 1960 Peace award. But the Nobel deadline for nominations is Jan. 31. long before the Congo emergency appeared. With Hammarskjold ruled out on this technicality (and perhaps with an eye toward avoiding controversy with Hammarskjold's vociferous detractor, Nikita Khrushchev), the committee decided to make...