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Convinced that they already had a perfectly clear understanding of South Africa's aspirations, nine African nations sent off a letter to U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold protesting against the "shooting and killing" at Windhoek and sharply reminding the world that after all, South West Africa has "an international status...
...that committee, Bang-Jensen had promised witnesses that their names would never be revealed. Convinced that if Communist agents within the U.N. got hold of the witnesses' names, relatives still in Hungary would suffer reprisals, Bang-Jensen held on to the documents, refused to obey U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's orders to turn them over to the U.N. Secretariat. After a long and bitter wrangle, Hammarskjold finally agreed to let Bang-Jensen destroy the papers...
UNITED NATIONS Extending the "Presence" U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold believes in doing good by stealth. He has succeeded in unobtrusively widening the powers of his office by quiet persuasion in private, and by the courage to make imaginative leaps of authority, which he disguises in dull prose. He also considers his jumps well, and has an instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute...
...Council debate on Laos, and the Russians jeered that the report "collapsed the Laotian charges like a card castle," the fact was that the very presence of the U.N. observers in Laos has put a considerable damper on overt Communist activity. And at week's end U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold decided to fly to Laos himself to determine whether the situation warrants some kind of permanent, though informal U.N. surveillance-a measure the Laotians feel would go a long way toward keeping the Red aggressors on their own side of the jungle...
...spokesman said Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was considering making a visit to Laos, but it would have no connection with the report to the Council...