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...speech--the third annual Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Lecture--is sponsored jointly by Radcliffe and the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists...
From France to the U.N. Secretariat in Manhattan came a stained-glass memorial on the themes of peace and love: a 12-ft. by 15-ft. panel designed without fee by Painter Marc Chagall, 77, as his remembrance of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "A poet always uses the same vocabulary," says Chagall, and his translucent sonnet displays his familiar metaphors of thin-lipped cow, floating patriarch and spiritual chicken. In Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the preserve of the Rockefellers, the Union Church received a stained-glass Chagall window depicting the good Samaritan, to be dedicated by the family...
Services were held after the deaths of both Jawaharal Nehru and Dag Hammarskjold. Hammarskjold had, however, previously received an honorary degree from the University...
Even Sweden, which last fought a war 150 years ago, is now determined to defend its neutrality, if necessary. Swedish troops performed ably as members of the U.N. peace-keeping mission in the Congo. Two Scandinavians, Norway's Trygve Lie and Sweden's Dag Hammarskjold, ran the U.N. creditably for 15 years. When Hammarskjold died in a 1961 plane crash, he had extended U.N. influence and broadened his countrymen's horizons. Younger Swedes, who previously showed little interest in world affairs, now generally support Western proposals for an ambitious Swedish foreign aid program in keeping with...
...counter to the squared shimmer of the Secretariat Building's facade. Symbolically, the bold bronze seems a play on the Swedish diplomat's name-a hammered shield. Inside the pierced circle of the design, Sculptress Hepworth has inscribed: "To the glory of God and the memory of Dag Hammarskjold...