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Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin seized the chance to press for his blunt resolution calling for Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's ouster, and for the U.N.'s exit from the Congo within a month. He was defeated before he started, but plowed doggedly on. Brandishing a magazine showing Hammarskjold and Katanga's Belgium-backed Moise Tshombe together in the same photo (taken as Hammarskjold led the first U.N. troops into Katanga last August), Zorin suggested that it proved that Dag was "allied" with "a Belgian puppet"; this brought weary grins from everyone at the horseshoe table, including Hammarskjold...
When Adlai Stevenson told Soviet Delegate Zorin about the plan, mentioning lightly that India and Nigeria-two conspicuous Afro-Asian names-might introduce it as a resolution, the Russian seemed startled: "What's that, what's that?" he barked at the interpreter. "Repeat that about India and Nigeria." He knew Moscow could not come out flatly against any scheme with wide support among the Asians and Africans...
...answer is that Russia wants nothing, no body, no agreement, no group of nations capable of hampering any adventure or pursuit the Kremlin might have in mind. Though the Russians value the U.N. as a propaganda forum, they have no interest in a U.N. with power to act (Zorin was quick to point out that he had nothing against the U.N. itself, only against its executive officer). Even if the present attack is beaten back, it has served the Russians' purpose in intimidating Hammarskjold...
...Africa, the Zorin attack alarmed governments who look to the U.N. for protection and as a forum where they can make their voices heard. But even here, the Russians had scored by their own reckoning. For the Communists look over the heads of governments to Africa's impassioned students and wild-eyed nationalists. If sufficiently encouraged in their anticolonial hatred for white men, they can be depended on, in the Communists' view, ultimately to rule the future of Africa. The 10,000 students who rioted last week in Nigeria were a warning of how effective this tactic could...
...behind him on the cover: Platon Morozov, Zorin's No. 2 man at the U.N. (with earphone), Alexei Nesterenko, the U.N. Soviet mission's political counselor...