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Unless memory fails me, TIME has never awarded its Man of the Year honor posthumously. Surely this year is the time to establish that precedent. Nobody anywhere on earth deserves this year the recognition more than the late Dag Hammarskjold...
Your forthcoming selection has not been so easy in many a moon. I am confident that even the Russians are placing a safe bet it will be that great statesman and worker for peace in our time, Dag Hammarskjold...
...wonder if Ivan ever heard of Jesus Christ. I've heard of Karl Marx and Ivan can have him! I wonder if Ivan has heard of Lincoln or Dag Hammarskjold? Poor Ivan, Stalin has just hit the dust. What a way to learn history...
With nary a negative peep from the Soviet bloc, the United Nations honored the wishes of the Ford Foundation (which donated the building) by dedicating its new $6,200,000 glass-and-marble library to the late Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Eulogized Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant of Burma: "Dag Hammarskjold was a man of learning and a poet of the breed for whom books and libraries are necessary delights...
...Acting Secretary-General, U Thant is expected to prove a patient and efficient chairman, rather than a bold initiator in Dag Hammarskjold's mold. U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson believes that he will be "very sturdy" in protecting his office against Russian attempts to undermine it. Throughout the long succession crisis, U Thant resisted all Soviet maneuvers to foist troika schemes on the U.N. Secretariat...