Evening star., 1960-10-26
HaInlnlarskjoId
Fighting toHold
U:.N. Position

under heavy Soviet fire. AS
each day passes at the still tu-
InultuouS United Nations,
however. it becomes clearer
that If Mr.. Hammarskjold goes
down, it will be with all his
guns blazing.
In fact, II the stepped-up
Soviet barrage has done any
thing, it has made q new man
Of the U. MS preStigious Sec
retary General. Accustomed to
Q chief who chose to be seen
rather than heard. q. N. sta6
members point out that Mr..
Hammarskjold has made at
least four major speeches-al-
belt brief ones-in the i've
weeks since Soviet Premier
Khrushchev launched his new
est offensive.
why, that's more than he
used to say for years on endl"
exclaimed one delighted mem.
Der Of the U. N. Secretariat the
other day.
Even the silent Swede's per-
Sonal style has changed. Once
dour and expreSSionlesS during
u. N. sittings, Mr.. Hammar-
skiold was moved to utter a wit
ticism from the General As.
sembly podium the other day.
II Mr.. Khrushchev accepts his
invitation to 60 boating, Mr..
Hammarskjold told the dele
gates assembled, ''he will flnd
that ! can row-using only my
own compass" With that, he
brought the house down In
applause.
Swede Hits Back
The charge that has stung
the blond Swe de into his
Sharpest counteY-attack 50 far
wassthe Soviet accusation that
he had followed q conscious
and partial policy" Of picking
recruits for the q. N. Secre-
tariat outside the Soviet bloc.
Mr., Hammarskjold doesn't
deny that Russia is under
represented on the Secretariat.
In Q report issued not long
ago. for example, he points
out that the Soviet Union now
holds only a of a minimum
quota Of lat posts on the U. N.
professional stan. (The United
States, too, is underTepresented,
though less drastically, with
261 professional appointees Of
q minimum quota Of S000
Replying to the Soviet
charges, Mr.. Hammarskjold
limited at what insiders say has
been Q major headache all
along. The Secretary General
implied, but did not state OUT
right. that Communist star
personnel lack the overriding
loyalty to the U. N. that Is
their duty under the Charter
(Article 100).
Article 'Inside Job"
When an attack on Mr.. Ham.
marskjold appeared in o Soviet
newspaper Oct. 8, citing figures
from expense accounts and
private U. N. documents to back
up the Soviet case, Secretariat
members had no trouble spot
ting the source. The article.
they. claimed, was an inside
Job" pieced together from in
formation made available by q
Russian member of the Secre-
tary Generals stan.
Awareriess Of difficulties Of
this type has steered Mr.. Ham.
marSkjold to q strong-minded
solution. Whenever q major
crises arises which poses a
threat to world peace - the
Congo is a case in point-the
auStere Swede insists on han
ding 1t himself, rather than
leave 1t to the U. N. Political
Departm ent. Reason? The
Political Department tradi-
tionally is headed by a Russian
with the rank of Under-Secre-
tary General. Right now, it is
Georgy P. Arkadyev.
Just to make sure its ma
tionals don't become too loyal
to the q. N. while serving it, or
possibly to make use of what
they learn, the Kremlin has q
way Of pulling back its U. N.
0ppointees before they've
stayed too long. 1.-TWO years Is
about par for the course for
the Russians" said one Secre-
tariat employe the other day.
Many Westerners on the staff
BY contrast, regard the u. N.
term as a long-term career
assignment.
Because it prefers to rotate
its appointees rather than loan
them to the U. N. for long
periods, the Soviet Union holds
Al short-term appointments on
the U. N. professional staff,
far more than any other coun-
try. The United States is in
second place with IS.
yStill another difference be-
tween the Soviet and Western
approaches to stating the
U. NJ: Appointment of an Iror
Curtain national to a q. N
vacancy is made on recon-
lnendation Of the Communist
government involved. A vast
majority Of Western employees
are hired on an individual
basis, often without knowledge
Of their government.
: Other Difficulties Arise
Other difficulties arise in the
path Of a Secretary General
who wishes to avert Commu.
mist wrath by appointing q full
quota of East Bloc representa-.
tiyes to his staff. One is thai
countries receiving U. N. aic
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