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...Peking last week, a slim, well-tailored Swede, representing the collective conscience of the United Nations, wrestled with the masters of China for the liberties of eleven U.S. airmen, jailed by the Communists as "spies." To some, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's mission was a humiliation: traveling halfway around the world to beg justice for innocent men. But in eleven U.S. cities, from Redding, Calif. (the home of 22-year-old Air Gunner Daniel Schmidt) to Lewisburg, Pa. (the home of Pilot William H. Baumer), the families of the airmen thought only of the chance that, perhaps...
...however, the HLU received a telegram from Huang requesting them to postpone the meeting until the results of U.N. Secretary-General Hammarskjold's proposed visit to Peeping became known, since he thought that his case would be affected by the visit...
Reuters, however, quoted a statement made by Hammarskjold yesterday on his way to China, to the effect that he had no intention of offering a trade of Chinese students for American airmen when he negotiates in Peeping for the release of the 11 imprisoned flyers. Huang could not be reached for comment last night...
...Should Hammarskjold's mission not assist Huang, the HLU will plan another visit to Washington...
...Comeback Try. For the captured Americans, Hammarskjold can offer very little in exchange. He is authorized neither to make concessions to Red China nor to negotiate broad issues. He might, perhaps, be able to arrange an exchange of the U.N. prisoners for those few Chinese students (out of 5,000 stranded in the U.S. when China fell to the Reds) who want to return home. The U.S. has with held exit permits to 35 Chinese, because of their studies in such sensitive fields as radar and physics, but indicated last week its readiness for an exchange similar to wartime transfers...