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...incident seemed undramatic. As the Assembly got ready to vote, Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana-a nation on which Khrushchev was counting heavily-rose from his seat. In clipped British accents, he asked Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin to drop his resolution condemning Hammarskjold for exceeding his powers in the Congo. Stunned, Zorin meekly complied, then sat in frozen silence as the Assembly, by a historic vote of 70 to 0, gave Hammarskjold a ringing endorsement and demanded that no nation ship arms to the Congo except through...
...Zorin ended by demanding what amounted to a vote of censure of Hammarskjold and a directive sharply restricting his authority in the Congo. Dag Hammarskjold's usually impassive face flushed with anger. "My record is on the table," he said. "I stand by it . . . The U.N. is engaged in a major effort to give life and substance to the independence of the Congo. No misunderstandings, no misinformation, no misinterpretations of the actions of the U.N. should be permitted to hamper an operation the importance of which, I know, is fully appreciated by all those African countries which, with great...
...state from sending military supplies into the Congo except through the U.N. Toward 1 o'clock one morning last week, a modified version of Wadsworth's resolution, presented by Ceylon and Tunisia, was put to the vote. Stubbornly calling for outright repudiation of Hammarskjold's acts, Zorin cast Russia's 90th veto in the Security Council. Wadsworth immediately called for an emergency General Assembly meeting under the "Uniting for Peace" rule, which permits the Assembly to take over vital issues that have been stalled in the Security Council...
After the Blast. There was a strong probability that Zorin, by his very aggressiveness, had blundered badly. The U.N., in its efforts to save the Congo from total collapse, had indeed moved closer and closer to assuming an unofficial mandate over the country, raising nagging doubts in the minds of some African neighbors and among others as well as to the legal consequences of the U.N.'s authority over the Congo. Fortnight ago, Ghana's President Nkrumah, justifiably suspicious that the U.N. was not working overtime to keep Lumumba in power, threatened to pull Ghanaian forces...
...Before Zorin's blast, the Africans might have felt free to express these doubts publicly and to condemn the consequences of Hammarskjold's Congo program as imprudent and improper. Many Africans would have been happy to have Khrushchev for a friend in their battle against colonialism...