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...over U.N. field activities there. This typical civil servant's decision to hang on could keep day-to-day operations going temporarily, but it would clearly prove unworkable when major policy decisions were required-for instance, whether to reinforce or withdraw the U.N. units fighting for control of Katanga. Without a chief executive, the U.N. machinery soon would run down...
Finally, Hammarskjold's heavy and ultimately tragic military intervention in Katanga aroused more Western antagonism than almost anything else he had done. That failure was not merely an error of military judgment, but could be traced back directly to the inherent confusion about the U.N.'s function and powers in the world. Thus the U.S. is faced not merely with Russia's perennial wrecking tactics; the U.N. after all can serve as an extremely useful mirror to show these tactics to the world. Nor is the U.S. merely faced with the political irresponsibility of the "new" nations...
...yellow flag of Sweden, rested amid a sea of fresh flowers in St. Andrews' United Church of Ndola. Four sentries stood at attention, as those who could reach the remote outpost paid their last respects. Among them was the man Hammarskjold had flown to Ndola to see: Katanga's stubborn President Moise Tshombe, whose troops were battling U.N. forces less than 100 miles away. Dressed in a grey suit and somber tie, Tshombe walked in briskly, placed a wreath of white lilies on the coffin, stood motionless for a full minute, bowed and walked out. "I knew...
Unexpected War. The events surrounding Hammarskjold's fatal flight to Ndola were nearly as bizarre as the Congo political scene itself. From the Congolese capital of Leopoldville, Hammarskjold had watched in agony for four days as the fighting in Katanga grew worse. The U.N. force was stymied, and there was growing danger that the left-wing army of Congolese Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga might invade Katanga and start in earnest the civil war Hammarskjold had acted to avoid...
Shortly after 4 p.m., Hammarskjold and his party of 15 climbed aboard the Albertina, a white DC-6 used by the U.N. in the Congo. Hammarskjold's main concern, on takeoff, was ominous: his plane had to cross territory controlled by a marauding Katanga jet fighter known as "The Lone Ranger." The pilot, thought to be Rhodesian or an English-speaking Belgian, had been terrorizing U.N. garrisons since the beginning of the fighting, had even made strafing passes at a press conference given by U.N. Katanga Commander Conor Cruise O'Brien in Elisabethville...