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...Hammarskjold's instructions, laid down by a U.N. majority of 47 to 5, were to make "continuing and unremitting efforts" to liberate the airmen and "all other captured personnel of the U.N. command, still detained" in violation of the Korean armistice. "Our prayers go with you," said U.N. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge as the Secretary General's plane took off. In England, where he picked up Professor Humphrey Waldock, Oxford's ranking expert on international law, Dag Hammarskjold was advised by Sir Anthony Eden to stick closely to the P.W. issue and fend off all Chinese efforts...
...Hammarskjold's next stop was Paris, where French Premier Pierre Mendès-France went out to Orly Field to meet him.* The two men chatted for an hour and Mendès-France commended this "mission of peace...
Advice from Nehru. Then came India, where Jawaharlal Nehru was conspicuously not at the airport when Hammarskjold's R.A.F. Argonaut touched down. Nehru, who claims to have arranged Peking's "acceptance" of the U.N. mission, was piqued by the inclusion of a Pakistani instead of an Indian adviser in Hammarskjold's entourage. Next day Hammarskjold had an interview with Nehru, who told him that by passing its "unfortunate resolution" the U.N. "had again crossed the 38th parallel." Unless Hammarskjold showed "humility" and was prepared to widen his discussions to embrace "a wider settlement," counseled Nehru...
Next it was China's turn to welcome the world's No. 1 international bureaucrat. On the way to Peking by plane, Hammarskjold paused at Hankow to meet, of all people, his nephew Peder Hammarskjold, chargé d'affaires at the Swedish embassy to Red China.* He arrived in the Chinese capital in sub-zero weather...
Chow with Chou. Chou En-lai gave a cocktail party which Peking radio described as "proceeding in a friendly atmosphere." Later that night, he and tired Dag Hammarskjold dined in private. Talks began next morning in the ornate Hsi Hwa (West Splendor) hall of Peking's Forbidden City. Hammarskjold and Chou, flanked by their advisers, sat on a damask sofa, interspersing their legal arguments with sips of jasmine-scented tea, served in eggshell porcelain cups...