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Khrushchev seemed to suffer from a totalitarian's inability to listen to any point of view but his own. But then, he is not used to sitting quietly in parliamentary bodies where everyone may speak freely in turn. As the week began, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. emboldened by the Assembly's 70-0 vote endorsing his policies in the Congo, briefly but eloquently punctured Khrushchev's proposal to abolish the office of Secretary-General in favor of a veto-ridden three-man directorate. Implicitly accusing the Soviets of trying to oust him because he had opposed...
...establish himself as the friend and protector of all the uncommitted. His plan to replace the office of Secretary-General with a three-headed executive composed of one Westerner, one Communist and one neutralist was more than just a scheme to get rid of Dag Hammarskjold and reduce the U.N. to impotence; it was also calculated to appeal to neutralist vanities. So was the disarmament ploy that he unveiled at midweek: an offer to resume the discussions that Russia walked out of last June, provided that the ten-nation Disarmament Committee was expanded by five to include Indonesia, Mexico, Ghana...
...like a spokesman for a group that had already rejected his right to do so. With the exception of Ghana's Nkrumah (who suggested that perhaps the U.N. should have three deputy Secretary-Generals), no one showed even faint enthusiasm for the Soviet plan to reorganize Hammarskjold out of a job. Khrushchev's airy claim that he and Tito had "fully" patched up their longstanding quarrel was belied by his own implicit admission that, in fact, they had not come to terms on i) their deep ideological differences, 2) Khrushchev's plan to get rid of Hammarskjold...
...week, Macmillan rose in the General Assembly to outline his proposal for new technical studies of disarmament problems. His speech was a masterful display of the British parliamentary manner, inflicting heavy damage on an opponent in the kindliest possible manner. While Khrushchev scowled, Macmillan paid tribute to Dag Hammarskjold, then proceeded to deplore on behalf of "the peoples of the world" the collapse of the Paris summit last May. At that, Khrushchev slammed his fist on the table, shot his right arm into the air and bellowed raucously: "You send your planes over our country. You are guilty of aggression...
...calm appeal to the neutralists. Said he: "There cannot be any disarmament without China. There cannot be any normal work of the United Nations without China." Then, as the spirit moved him, he embarked on wholesale denunciation of the West and all its works. While the usually impassive Dag Hammarskjold smiled down from his seat a few feet above the rostrum, Khrushchev flailed the air with a clenched fist and shouted that Hammarskjold was "a creature of the imperialists." A few moments later, in a lightning transition, he labeled Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco "the hangman of the Spanish...