Word: hammarskjold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During Thant's year in office he has managed to keep both sides happy most of the time. He brought more Russians into the Secretariat, began conferring regularly with his Soviet Under Secretary, whom his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had deliberately ignored. But when Russia failed to ante up for the Congo operation, Thant deplored the fact, to the satisfaction...
Thant's term of office will run until Nov. 3, 1966, five years from the date he took over as the "acting" successor to Hammarskjold. Thant was inclined to a full five-year hitch beginning last month...
...Hammarskjold liked to be near universities, and the method of thought they inspired; and commitment to ideas of rationality and tolerance in international relation was the measure of his commitment to the United Nations. Radcliffe, and the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists, have shown the most acute recognition of this quality in the late Secretary-General, and the best possible commemoration of it, in their origination of a lecture series in his name...
Last night the first lecturer in the series, Mme. Rossel of Hammarskjold's own Sweden (the country from which his job usurped his political devotion, but never his cultural sympathy) spoke of the U.N.'s most personal and humanitarian works: the series started where it should, with individuals. But appropriate though this beginning is, the tough-minded Secretary-General would have encouraged a series that went on from here to lectures whose ideas might influence the expansion of the scope of international organization, and of respect for international law. The most tangible steps toward reform, development, and the relief...
Human beings are the world's most important natural resource, and the United Nations is trying to see that this resource is used to its fullest extent, said Mme. Agda Rossel, Swedish ambassador to the U.N., last night at the first annual Dag Hammarskjold lecture...