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...else but the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold...
...ambitions of the big powers." In Germany, Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung conceded: "One must state with astonishment that the U.N. is stronger than it seemed." Even New York's xenophobic Daily News (which usually wishes that its 42nd Street neighbor would drop dead) credited Dag Hammarskjold's "diplomatic menagerie" with "quite an achievement...
Private Faces. Sensitive and deceptively youthful in appearance, 51-year-old Dag Hammarskjold is a scion of one of Sweden's most notable political families. His father was the Prime Minister who kept Sweden out of World War I. Hammarskjold was from childhood a quiet, reserved person whose pastimes were solitary (mountaineering, cycling) and whose interests were intellectual (modern poetry and modern art). Despite what colleagues called his "devastating impersonality," his brilliant record as an economist and his outstanding administrative skill made him at 31 Under Secretary of Finance, and, at 36, chairman of the Bank of Sweden...
...Highest Regard." When he first got news of the Anglo-French ultimatum to Egypt, Dag Hammarskjold, who has closer intellectual and emotional ties with the British and French than with any other group in the U.N., went into a state of near shock. Late that night, after Britain and France had vetoed two Security Council cease-fire proposals, Hammarskjold went to his eight-room apartment at East 73rd Street and Park Avenue and tried to get some sleep. But sleep would not come, and at dawn his housekeeper found him hunched over the desk in his study, writing...
...night." Both statements were remarkably similar in content. Both offered a powerful endorsement of the United Nations− certainly the strongest yet given by the Catholic Church in the U.S.-and in consequence they also provided a powerful moral boost to the crucial work of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (see FOREIGN NEWS). Both statements also contained support for President Eisenhower's handling of the crisis...