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...land on the East River that is U.N. territory, Khrushchev this time might find himself not much more welcome. He would cry peace and disarmament, but has shown that he has about as much interest in reducing tensions and promoting world order as the Three Stooges. Dag Hammarskjold and Russia's fellow Security Council members, bent on quieting the Congo turmoil, had watched the Soviets stir the fires of chaos, make a grandstand play to Africans by labeling the U.N. a partner to a colonial conspiracy, and egg on the wild Lumumba (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...peace was being jeopardized, it was the Russians who were making the mischief. The reputation of the U.N. itself was at issue in the Congo, and it was the Russians who were doing most to queer the act. In this tough moment for the U.N., the U.S. rallied to Hammarskjold's side...
...Obsessed." Furiously. Lumumba's newspaper accused the North Africans of cuddling up to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in return for his promise to help them in the next U.N. debate on the Algerian war. Unmoved, the majority of the African "summiteers" agreed to a resolution urging the Congo to halt further incidents of violence against the U.N. forces, and pointedly recalling that U.N. troops had come "at the express request" of the Congolese government. The resolution expressly commended both Hammarskjold and Ralph Bunche (who last week headed home from the Congo declaring "I am a man of patience...
Hanging On. In the swirling Congo, this charge was hard to prove or disprove. But the Belgians did seem to be stalling on their promise to evacuate their troops from the last big airbases they controlled, including the spacious, well-equipped Kamina strip in Katanga. Hammarskjold fired off a stiff note to Brussels, virtually accusing the Belgians of lying in assuring him that all their soldiers had left when, in fact, he charged, 600 remained. Belgium called this figure "exaggerated," replied tartly that insufficient U.N. transport planes had been provided...
...long way to go before he could call himself master of his nation. From the lower Congo came word of mutinies among army units discontented with weeks of no pay or supplies. In the boondocks town of Moerbeke, an armed civilian mob set upon U.N. Moroccan troops. Breaching Hammarskjold's no-gunfire rule, the Moroccans opened fire, killing one Congolese-the first U.N.-caused death in the Congo...