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Died. His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur, Maharaja of Indore, 53, progressive-minded, Oxford-educated ruler of 1,500,000 worshipful subjects from 1926 until his pensioning-off by the Indian government in 1948; of cancer; in New Delhi. Of low caste despite his princely rank (he was descended from a land-grabbing shepherd), the Maharaja devoted large chunks of an estimated prewar income of $70 million a year to the delights of shikar (hunting), zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough...
Much of the credit went to the U.N.'s new Congo boss, Dr. Sture Linner, 44, the tall, mild Swede whose friendly new approach was working wonders with the Congolese central government. Unlike India's haughty Rajeshwar Dayal, Linner mixed freely with the Congolese. Said he: "We get along wonderfully well. I happen to like Africans." One result: after long, friendly talks with President Joseph Kasavubu, the U.N. chief was able to move his troops back into the Congo's main port of Matadi; only last March, angry Congolese infantrymen had blasted them out with mortars...
Twenty-seven years in India's elite civil service gave brilliant, Oxford-trained Rajeshwar Dayal an elegant diplomatic manner and endless Oriental patience. But this was hardly enough to prepare Dayal for the heat, hatred and hurly-burly of central Africa when U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold named him chief of the U.N. mission in the Congo last August. Almost before Dayal had settled into his glass-walled office in Léopoldville, chaos broke around his head. Erratic Patrice Lumumba wanted protection in his refuge in the Premier's residence. From his own villa near by, President...
When Hammarskjold called Dayal back to U.N. Manhattan headquarters for "consultation" in March, nearly everybody sighed with relief. U.N. relations with the Congolese improved spectacularly, and the U.S. gently urged Hammarskjold to keep Dayal in Manhattan indefinitely. Finally, last week, controversial Rajeshwar Dayal announced his resignation. As soon as he can pack his bags, he will return to his old job as India's High Commissioner to Pakistan, where good diplomatic manners and endless Oriental patience still had a certain value...
...politely asked President Kasavubu to accord Tshombe "fair treatment and due process of law." But the U.N.'s special representative to the Congo, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who had been quick to protest Kasavubu's least move to counter the machinations of pro-Communist Patrice Lumumba, uttered not a word of reproach. In fact he was still "consulting" in New York, and seemed disinclined to return to the Congo, where he seems to have incurred the displeasure of nearly all Congolese. Explained one observer: "In the next few weeks, it's just possible we will find...