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...Dawn. When he finally entered the wide blue and gold council chamber, Dag Hammarskjold looked, as always, calm and cool. But there was a strain in his tired voice, and his words, usually oblique and professional, this time were plain and full of passion. The Congo, said Hammarskjold with chilling precision, is "a question of peace or war, and when saying peace or war, I do not limit my perspective to the Congo." Bluntly he portioned out blame to Belgium for dragging its feet, to the Congo for its impatience, and strongly criticized governments-unnamed-which threatened to take matters...
...with France and Italy abstaining, the U.N. Security Council by a vote of 9-0 gave Dag Hammarskjold the resolution he wanted...
Preventive Diplomacy. That vote was a logical culmination of Hammarskjold's whole career as U.N. Secretary-General. When he took over in 1953 from Norway's forthright and flamboyant Trygve Lie, U.N. members contentedly thought they were switching from hot to cool. Dag seemed safely competent and colorless. He still speaks with caution, but on accepting his second term as Secretary-General, he gave full notice that he was prepared, without a specific mandate, "to fill any vacuum" and provide for the "safeguarding of peace and security." Last year he explained candidly that the limitations...
...Already Hammarskjold was turning what one aide describes as "his Renaissance mind, fast and flexible," to the disasters he thought might occur as Africa's once-colonial states gained independent nationhood. Back in 1956 he had strongly urged the creation of a U.N. international professional and technical civil service for new nations that lacked competent officials. The idea was part of Hammarskjold's pet theory of "preventive diplomacy," which he defines as "smelling conflict in the air before it is on your table." Sniffing the troubled air, Hammarskjold last winter took a six-week tour of Africa, including...
Nothing Succeeds . .. When the Congo broke last month all the devices needed to cope with the situation were already a part of Dag's experience or thinking. From the beginning, the instructions that the Security Council gave Hammarskjold were, in fact, ones that he had written himself...