Ka cika wannan jumla: An san Enckell a cikin mahallin diflomasiyya a matsayin mutum mai launi. Lokacin da Ministan Ilimi na Sweden ya soki Yakin Vietnam, Firayim Minista Olof Palme ya yi Allah wadai da yakin.
A lokacin mamayar Czechoslovakia a 1968, Enckell ya nuna bambanci tsakanin manufofin tsaka tsaki na Sweden da Finland: "Finland tana neman gudanar da alaƙar ta gabas da yamma, Sweden kamar yadda ba ta da kyau".