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Last week the United Nations General Assembly condemned Communist China for its illegal detention of U.S. military airmen. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, asked to make "continuing and unremitting efforts" to bring about the Americans' release, promptly cabled Red China's Premier Chou En-lai requesting a meeting in Peking. The U.N. vote was impressive in itself (47 to 5, with seven abstentions), but even more so was the vigorous manner in which the U.S. and her allies, after long months of scarcely muffled dissonance, acted in concert. The censure tune's most spirited notes were, in fact...
...Secretary Dag Hammarskjold asked for a meeting with Communist China's Chou en Lie earlier this week, but as yet had not received any reply...
Freedom House Dinner (Sun. 10:35 p.m., ABC). Speeches by Harry S. Truman, Dag Hammarskjold, Paul Hoffman...
Died. Hjalmar Hammarskjold, 91, statesman-father of the United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold; in Stockholm. As Sweden's Premier during World War I, he shaped his country's traditional neutrality policy, and later, as chairman of the multimillion-dollar foundation (1929-47), annually presided over the awarding of Nobel Prizes...
Once free, Korowicz asked Secretary of State Dulles for asylum in the U.S. (More than 200 other Russian and satellite diplomats have similarly sought safety in the West since 1945.) Then he sent letters renouncing his Polish credentials to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit now president of the General Assembly (see INTERNATIONAL). He wrote: "It is... absolutely impossible for me to collaborate with these representatives-not of my beloved country-but solely of the Soviet regime in Poland...