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...after day the Security Council debate droned on in search of a new mandate to help U.N. Secretary-General U Thant cope with the Congo mess...
...Delegate Adlai Stevenson won wide support for his proposal to strengthen both U Thant and the Congolese central government in the struggle against all rebels and secessionists still stirring trouble in the Congo. But the Soviet Union's Valerian Zorin was anxious to protect one of the worst troublemakers, Red-backed Antoine Gizenga of Eastern province; tossing two rapid-fire vetoes, Russia's Zorin declined to approve any measure not directed exclusively against anti-Communist Moise Tshombe of Katanga. To prevent total deadlock and inaction, Stevenson reluctantly gave U.S. approval to the narrower, Soviet-favored proposal...
...Burma's U Thant himself who took a broader line. He promised to clear out Tshombe's white soldiers ("professional adventurers who fight and kill for money"). He added: "The U.N. position, it seems to me, is automatically against all armed activities against the central government and against secessionist forces." As Stevenson's original amendment urged, U Thant pluckily proposed that the Congolese army be reorganized and retrained; this would put the troops into the hands of the central government-and out of the hands of such rebels as Gizenga...
With nary a negative peep from the Soviet bloc, the United Nations honored the wishes of the Ford Foundation (which donated the building) by dedicating its new $6,200,000 glass-and-marble library to the late Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Eulogized Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant of Burma: "Dag Hammarskjold was a man of learning and a poet of the breed for whom books and libraries are necessary delights...
...first name, but an honorary title roughly meaning mister. Thant means clean or clear in Burmese, hence one reporter's nickname for U Thant: Mr. Clean...