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...British diplomat who asked, "Can you imagine what the situation would be in the Congo now if it had not been for the U.N. ?" and promptly answered himself: "Intervention by the two superpowers and a dangerous clash between them." Along with the relief ran pleased surprise at Hammarskjold's positive achievements in the Congo and some concern over what he had let himself and the U.N. in for. In a month of swirling diplomatic maneuver, Hammarskjold had sometimes seemed to falter but in the end prevailed. He steadily pressured the Belgians toward renouncing their angry reoccupation of the Congo...
Eighty-Two Obligations. The quiet man who has done all of this is a 55-year-old bachelor who was born in a lakeside castle in Sweden of a long line of aristocrats and intellectuals. Despite his athleticism (mountain climbing, cycling), slope-shouldered Dag Hammarskjold has a mild and even frail appearance. He converses sedately in four languages (excellent Swedish, English and French, adequate German), and when he sees a listener has got his drift, will often finish up, "and so forth...
...building for a 7 p.m. meeting with his staff. At 9, he was closeted with the four small-nation members (currently Ceylon, Tunisia, Argentina, Ecuador) of the eleven-man Security Council. Tunisia's dapper Mongi Slim assumed the role of floor leader in the fight for the resolution Hammarskjold wanted-one which would press the Belgians to withdraw "immediately" from Katanga but would promise Tshombe that their replacement by U.N. forces would not compromise Katanga's secession effort...
...representatives of nine African states had joined Hammarskjold in his 38th floor dining room looking out over the thrusting towers of midtown Manhattan. Some of the Africans angrily demanded that the U.N. fight its way into Katanga. Trading on his status as a fellow Afro-Asian, Tunisia's Slim forcefully argued the Hammarskjold line that an appeal to force would lead to a Security...
...same morning Hammarskjold also had a long conversation with Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov, who was strongly urging armed entry into Katanga, hoping thereby to drive a wedge into the NATO powers, who would have to line up on different sides of such a resolution. Ham marskjold gambled that the Russians would extract every possible drop of propaganda advantage from their bluster but that they would not oppose the African states in a showdown-and perhaps he got a wink that told...