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...answer to an invitation from the Harvard-Radcliffe United Nations Council to deliver the first annual Dag Hammarskjold lectureship, Truman said, "it would be a pleasure to deliver a lecture at Harvard." The United Nations Council had previously asked Truman to speak last year...
...Rifai told a cheering emergency session of Parliament last night Jordan will accuse Syria of an act of aggression for intercepting King Hussein's vacation-bound plane. Thunderous applause greeted his announcement that the government would bring the case before the U.N. Security Council and would ask Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to take quick measures for a debate...
Feeling ran high in Sweden, the home of the Nobel Prizes. Even the Communist newspaper Ny Dag thought that Pasternak should have been allowed to accept the prize. Last week the Nobel Prize for Physics went to three Soviet scientists, and Russia greeted the news with joy. The winners were allowed to accept the prize (see SCIENCE). But the Russian insults to neutral Sweden for rewarding Pasternak had left a sour taste in the mouths of the 15 Nobel judges (among them: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold). They had honored Pasternak not because he was anti-Communist but because they...
...parading up and down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, with Secretary-General Trygve Lie out front on a white charger. In the midst of the Lebanese crisis last August, President Eisenhower called on the U.N. to set up a "standby peace force." But last week U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cautiously rejected the whole idea of a permanent U.N. army, ready to rush off anywhere and any time. The kind of force "generally envisaged," said he, "would be without great practical value," and expensive to boot...
Only last July the flames of aggression blazed so high in the Middle East that the U.S. and Britain dispatched emergency fire fighters to Lebanon and Jordan, and the whole world scrambled for the summit in asbestos suits. Last week, on the strength of International Fire Chief Dag Hammarskjold's diplomatic finding that the flames were now well under control, the U.S. and Britain announced that they would pull all their men out of the two little countries by month...