The Marquess of Lansdowne

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 6, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

BUT FOR the insistence of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold, that they travel in separate planes, George Lansdowne might have died with him in the Congo just under 38 years ago.

As a junior minister in the Foreign Office, he had been sent by Harold Macmillan to report on the military efforts undertaken by the UN to bring Katanga's secession from the Congo to an end and to persuade them that diplomacy rather than force might be a more appropriate means. The British government, as Lansdowne made clear, feared that the UN action might leave Soviet-backed insurgents in ...

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