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...same time, it was learned that Dag Hammarskjold, previously listed as a strong possibility, would not be in Cambridge during Commencement Week. Although several early entrants in the contest had listed the U.N. Secretary-General as a possibility, their chances for the big $15.00 first prize are not seriously impaired...
...mind is that possibilities will come from a variety of fields. Thus, in the past, there has usually been at least one outstanding foreign leader. Two years ago, it was Robert Schuman; last year it Konrad Adenauer. The CRIMSON suggests that this year Secretary-General of the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold is likely to win an honorary degree...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold returned to his steel-and-glass international enclave on Manhattan Island last week. He came back from his mission to the Middle East reflecting, with the practiced restraint of a Swedish diplomat, a quiet satisfaction in having stopped the fighting on the Israeli-Egyptian border, but qualifying his guarded optimism for the future with a polite cautionary warning to nations outside the area...
Followed by such grateful and admiring words from those he had just pried from each other's throats, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold this week flew back to New York from his month-long peacemaking mission to the Middle East. From Jerusalem he dispatched an advance report to the Security Council that Israel and the four neighboring Arab states had all promised to observe a ceasefire along their borders, and had agreed not to retaliate even if provoked...
Having won peaceful assurances from the leading Middle East antagonists, Egypt and Israel, U.N. Peacemaker Dag Hammarskjold continued his circling of Israel's troubled borders. Discreet in public utterance, candid in private negotiation, he sought to win cease-fire agreements from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. As he flew to Cairo at week's end for further talk with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, it appeared that an armistice may be the best that Hammarskjold can get, though a settlement is what he hopes for, with a stable peace a more-distant dream...