Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking last week, a slim, well-tailored Swede, representing the collective conscience of the United Nations, wrestled with the masters of China for the liberties of eleven U.S. airmen, jailed by the Communists as "spies." To some, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's mission was a humiliation: traveling halfway around the world to beg justice for innocent men. But in eleven U.S. cities, from Redding, Calif. (the home of 22-year-old Air Gunner Daniel Schmidt) to Lewisburg, Pa. (the home of Pilot William H. Baumer), the families of the airmen thought only of the chance that, perhaps...
Hammarskjold's next stop was Paris, where French Premier Pierre Mendès-France went out to Orly Field to meet him.* The two men chatted for an hour and Mendès-France commended this "mission of peace...
Advice from Nehru. Then came India, where Jawaharlal Nehru was conspicuously not at the airport when Hammarskjold's R.A.F. Argonaut touched down. Nehru, who claims to have arranged Peking's "acceptance" of the U.N. mission, was piqued by the inclusion of a Pakistani instead of an Indian adviser in Hammarskjold's entourage. Next day Hammarskjold had an interview with Nehru, who told him that by passing its "unfortunate resolution" the U.N. "had again crossed the 38th parallel." Unless Hammarskjold showed "humility" and was prepared to widen his discussions to embrace "a wider settlement," counseled Nehru...
...Foreign Minister and a formidable 27-man delegation, Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes journeyed last week to neighboring Iraq, on the first visit of a Turkish head of state to Baghdad since Iraq freed itself of the Ottomans in 1918. He got a royal welcome. Menderes' mission: to persuade Iraq to join its fellow Moslems in the U.S.-blessed Turkish-Pakistan defense pact, designed to protect the Middle East's "northern tier" from Russia (TIME, March 1). Iraq already has long standing commercial and diplomatic ties with Britain, and two large R.A.F. bases...
Whether Baghdad joins formally or not, its sympathies were made abundantly clear last week. For "economy reasons" little Iraq closed its Moscow embassy and discontinued diplomatic relations with Russia. "An unfriendly act," cried Moscow, withdrawing its own mission from Baghdad...