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...Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens, 60, a familiar U.N. figure. But when the conference got under way, the man in charge was a slim and sandy-haired Swede with an easy smile, a sensitive mouth, and eyes the same color as the light blue U.N. flag. He is Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the U.N. and the world's No. 1 international civil servant...
...millions who cannot pronounce his name ("Just call it Hammer-shield," he says. "That's what it means"), Dag Hammarskjold is "Mr. U.N." He is the man whose job it is to stand between the representatives of Israel and the Arabs, India and Pakistan, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Hammarskjold does not fancy himself as a "World Moderator," as the U.S. Government once suggested the Secretary-General should be called. He sees himself more modestly as the U.N.'s chief servant, ready to do the bidding of his bosses, the 60 nations. In the name of the United...
...Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations . . . . LL.D...
...order to capture a lynx when it came down, and he built 36 kinds of covert before he discovered an adequate way to hide and shelter himself and his camera. The film took three years to complete, cost more ($120,000) than Sucksdorff had in pocket. His chief backer: Dag Hammarskjold. Secretary-General...
...passed a resolution that member states withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid, and that Spain be denied any affiliation with U.N. agencies. In 1950 the resolution was repealed, and Spain is now a member of UNESCO and six other U.N. agencies. Last week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold went a little further: after repeated proddings from Madrid, he invited Spain to send an official observer to the U.N. * Francisco Franco's well-trained press exulted that this was further proof that the "yellow flag of quarantine" which once flew over Spain is being hauled down...