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...Hammarskjold organized the first world police force to keep order in the Middle East. Never making statements from which he would have to retreat, never committing others to public positions that they could not defend, Hammarskjold has cautiously moved behind a cloud of equivocal words to win an Arab-Israeli truce that has lasted four years. By establishing a representative as a "U.N. presence" in Laos, he stifled Communist infiltration from North Viet...
...Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian doctors, Hammarskjold called on the World Health Organization and the International Red Cross to "stage a crash operation." From 10 capitals he got pledges of emergency...
...increasingly yearn for the end of a war that has cost (by French estimates) the lives of 250,000 rebels. The French army has confined 11,000 Algerians in concentration camps, forced 1,500,000 men, women and children into "regroupment centers" whose squalor is unmatched even by the Arab refugee camps on Israel's borders. When a French radio reporter toured Algiers' casbah last week seeking reaction to the rebel decision to try negotiations, the few Moslems who would talk at all would say only that they were for peace...
...tribal nightmare must come a national cabinet, a prime minister and a chief of state in time for independence day on June 30; but bloody tribal fighting has raged for months through the Congo. Bitterest of all was in the land of the Lulua. Since the 19th century, when Arab slave raiders drove the frightened Baluba westward into Lulua territory, the Baluba had happily tilled Lulua soil in semi-serfdom in exchange for the right to remain in the area. Then last year, when whispers of Congolese independence filtered out from Leopoldville, the Baluba began declaring themselves free men, tried...
There are occasional flat passages in the book, and some embarrassing ones, as when Frankfurter recalls being introduced to Prince Feisal of Iraq ("Here was little me meeting this Arab prince!"). But it is suffused with his love for the law, that towering edifice which is "all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling." Frankfurter lays down the axiom that "the worst public servants are narrow-minded lawyers, and the best are broad-minded lawyers." He neglects to say who should make the determination. But readers may feel that...