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Ever since Dag Hammarskjold's DC-6 crashed and burned in the forest near Ndola. Northern Rhodesia, eight months ago, the United Nations has been trying to determine whether it was an accident or sabotage. Last week, after hearing dozens of witnesses in five cities, an investigating commission issued its final verdict: Cause unknown...
...Counselor Mikhail Smirnovsky. While it waited for Dobrynin's arrival, official Washington had had time to ponder his credentials. A skilled diplomat and a top Soviet expert on the U.S., Dobrynin served at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1952 to 1955. Later, at the U.N., he was Dag Hammarskjold's Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs. He attended the Geneva summit conference in 1955 and the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting at Vienna...
Leontief served as one of the experts chosen by the late U.N. Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold, to study "the consequences of disarmament in countries with different economic systems and at different stages of economic development." The U.N. conference, which met in New York for four weeks beginning Jan. 16, included representatives from East, West and the neutralist bloc...
...Against this dismal pattern the magazine holds a genuinely impressive tract, the introduction to the Secretary General's Annual Report. The product of the late Dag Hammarskold's lucid mind, it describes concepts of the U.N. as a "static conference for resolving conflicts of interest and ideologies" (the Wiley view) or as an organization able to play an effective role in the world through executive action. The only pity of it is that it ends so suddenly...
...crisis, he was tough and fast on his feet; his quiet diplomacy helped get Indonesia and The Netherlands to agree to negotiate the West New Guinea dispute. Along with respected President Slim, U Thant kept the Assembly serious and businesslike; in many ways, delegates found him more decisive than Dag...