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...chiefly responsible for converting the U.N. from an ineffectual sounding board into an effective force for international order is Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, 55. Son of a Swedish Prime Minister and scion of one of Sweden's most famous families, sandy-haired Dag Hammarskjold is one of the world's most self-effacing men. To a post in which the confidence of others counts for everything, this poetry-loving economist (he was chairman of the Bank of Sweden at 36) brings icy impartiality and impenetrable discretion...
Though Russia's Arkady Sobolev routinely charged that the U.S., Britain and France were engaged in a "colonialist conspiracy," in the end Russia was forced to vote for the resolution, which passed 8-0 (Britain, France and Nationalist China abstained). Within hours, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had the first contingents of a 6,000-man force on their...
Secretary of State Christian Herter decided against arrest and prosecution, said Nixon, because it might embarrass Guest Khrushchev. Instead, the evidence was taken quietly to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. and within days Kirilyuk and his family were on their way home. There were no arrests, no speeches, no recriminations. Total score of Soviet diplomats known to have been kicked out by the U.S. in the past ten years: 15-eight from the Soviet embassy in Washington, seven from...
...Merci, Merci'." In Manhattan. United Nations' Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Democrat-at-Large Adlai Stevenson. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and ex-Governor Averell Harriman paid homage at the general's hotel suite in what the New York Herald Tribune called a "little summit.'' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., honored De Gaulle in his own language; Mayor Wagner, not to be outdone, quoted from Victor Hugo; and the New York Times ran the complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit...
Everywhere Deplored. The U.S. State Department, freely intruding in another nation's internal affairs contrary to usual practice, "deplored" the violence and "regretted" the tragic loss of life. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold said that the U.N. was entitled to discuss the race riots, even if it could not intervene over them, and added: "In humanitarian terms, you need not have any doubt about my feelings." On petition of 29 Afro-Asian U.N. members, U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, as the current president of the Security Council, set a meeting for this week...