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...cheaply. Dag Hammarskjöld, the neutral Swede, was sworn in as Trygve Lie's successor, vowing to "exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience the functions of the Secretary General." Afterwards, diplomats gathered round to welcome the new man and say farewell to the old. Lie and Hammarskjold started down the line, and the eighth man they came to was Andrei Vishinsky, who, for more than three years, has ignored or berated Lie as an "American stooge." This time, Vishinsky affably took Lie's outstretched hand. The audience of 3,500, grateful for small favors, applauded loudly...
...called the General Assembly's new Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden, "a successful choice." Of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, head of the U. S. delegation, Menon would only say he had a nice personality and was "a Harvard man." But he would not explain this last remark...
Quietly elected to the Court also last week was its onetime Clerk, Swedish Academician Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjold. Elected with eclat was the distinguished Chinese Supreme Court jurist...