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...everything in Sweden stopped abruptly for a moment of silence. Among the 2,000 invited guests was the Ambassador of Russia, which in the last year of his life had denounced Hammarskjold as "a bloody-handed lackey of the colonial powers." President Kennedy sent Lyndon Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Said Johnson: "The name of Dag Hammarskjold has entered history-and history confers its highest honors for heroes of peace." Dr. Ralph Bunche, who as a U.N. under secretary worked closely with Hammarskjold, was near tears. Said he: "We are like a crew that has lost its captain...
...this climate of compounding emergency, the President worked late almost every night in his White House office. He was constantly on the phone with Secretary Rusk and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, sometimes grabbing the receiver as he walked into his office and beginning to talk before he was settled behind his oaken desk. On Tuesday afternoon the Joint Chiefs of Staff slipped secretly into the White House to review the nation's Berlin contingency plans...
...Africa's "new" nations-unstable, unpredictable, backward not only economically but backward in their acquaintance with liberty, their experience in government, and their ability to defend themselves. That is the setting of the battle which Secretary of State Dean Rusk, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson, and President Kennedy himself were fighting in the aftermath of Hammarskjold's death...
Kiss of Death. Hardly had the news of Hammarskjold's death arrived when Ambassador Stevenson met with his delegation staff, decided on a drive to install quickly some respected U.N. figure-probably an African or Asian-as a temporary administrator. Stevenson knew that it was useless to press for a permanent new Secretary-General, who is formally appointed by the Assembly but who must first get clearance in the veto-bound Security Council. There the Russians would inevitably climb into their troika-their insistent demand that the office of Secretary-General be replaced by a three-man, veto-bound...
President Eisenhower once accused Adlai Stevenson of mystifying the public with "Harvard words," which is some indication of how elusive the quality of being Harvard is, since Mr. Stevenson in a Princeton graduate. Uncertainty about this quality bothers newcomers to Cambridge and returning students alike. Beyond the one fact about its nature that everyone returning learns, that it changes very little (Boston, being the hub of the universe, stands still while the rest of the world moves), Harvard chastely offers few clues to the curious or the irreverent...