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...crackled a curt message: Unless all eight planes were allowed to land, the entire flight would return to Leopoldville. Toying with a tourist booklet entitled "Elisabethville Welcomes You," Tshombe (pronounced Chombay) hesitated briefly, then gave clearance to all the planes and stepped out onto the field to greet Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations...
...slim, sandy-haired Hammarskjold marched past a Katanga honor guard, a crowd of several hundred Belgians and Africans set up a cry of "Down with the United Nations." At the sight of the 240 Swedish troops,* the U.N. advance guard who, Dag said, were under "my exclusive, personal authority," the crowd jeered again...
...Katanga jeered and Belgians fretted, most of the rest of the world cheered. New York Times Reporter James Reston called Hammarskjold "one of the great natural resources in the world today." A Netherlands editorialist saw him as a "supranational figure," Italy as "a world-famed arbitrator . . . who imposes his own will," Japan as "the bridge between the reality of the world situation and the ideal of world peace...
Pursuing Voices. Tshombe might well be attempting a great bluff, very likely would be willing to settle in the end for a semi-autonomous status in a Congo confederation. But he had one strong card. Hammarskjold's mandate from the U.N. members who had sent troops to the Congo did not permit him to commit the U.N. "army" to battle-or even to a jungle skirmish. For hours after hearing Bunche's report, Dag pondered the strength of Tshombe's hand. At last, barely six hours before the first contingent was due to take off, Hammarskjold canceled...
...Congo government, was peddling her views to dozens of Congolese politicians who streamed through her office which adjoins Lumumba's residence. As chief speechwriter for Deputy Premier Gizenga, she also whipped up the tirade against the U.N. and the West which Gizenga delivered at a banquet honoring Dag Hammarskjold's arrival...