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U.N. Secty.-Gen.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. – U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, warning that the world faces the issue of peace or war, called today for immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Belgian forces from the Congo, including secessionist Katanga Province.

He delivered the warning in a hard-hitting speech at the opening of an urgent meeting of the 11-nation U. N. Security Council on the Congo crisis.

He called on the council to spell out in a resolution that the withdrawal should apply to Katanga. "I do not hesitate to say that the speediest possible - I would even say immediate -- achievement of such a solution of the Congo problem is a question of peace or war. and when saying peace or war I do not limit my perspective to the Congo," he said.

"A delay now, hesitation now, efforts to safeguard national or group interests now in a way that would hamper the U. N. effort, would risk values immeasurably greater than any of those which such action may be intended to protect."

Hammarskjold's personal report to the council was delivered as various proposals were under consideration aimed at getting a U. N. force into Katanga Province.

Russians Urge U.N. Get Tough in Congo

UNITED NATIONS. (A) - The Soviet Union called on the Security Council tonight to empower U.N. forces in the Congo to shoot their way into Katanga province.

Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsoy introduced a resolution in the 11-nation council which would give Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold power to take any measures necessary to compel a Belgian troop withdrawal.