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...wonder if Ivan ever heard of Jesus Christ. I've heard of Karl Marx and Ivan can have him! I wonder if Ivan has heard of Lincoln or Dag Hammarskjold? Poor Ivan, Stalin has just hit the dust. What a way to learn history...
With nary a negative peep from the Soviet bloc, the United Nations honored the wishes of the Ford Foundation (which donated the building) by dedicating its new $6,200,000 glass-and-marble library to the late Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Eulogized Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant of Burma: "Dag Hammarskjold was a man of learning and a poet of the breed for whom books and libraries are necessary delights...
...Secretary-General who comes after me," Dag Hammarskjold once said, "will be one of the Afro-Asians." Last week, nearly two months after Hammarskjold's death, the U.N. fulfilled his prophecy. Picked to succeed Dag, after weeks of haggling between Russia and the U.S., was Burma's permanent U.N. delegate, U Thant (rhymes with Du Pont).* His selection came after Russia finally backed away from its insistence on a troika leadership and compromised with the U.S. on the number and authority of assistant secretaries. The U S wanted five, one each from the U.S., Russia, Latin America, Africa...
...Acting Secretary-General, U Thant is expected to prove a patient and efficient chairman, rather than a bold initiator in Dag Hammarskjold's mold. U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson believes that he will be "very sturdy" in protecting his office against Russian attempts to undermine it. Throughout the long succession crisis, U Thant resisted all Soviet maneuvers to foist troika schemes on the U.N. Secretariat...
...since 1959, by decree of the racist South African government, a virtual exile from his people. Awarded a year late because of the exhaustive search into his qualifications by the Nobel Committee, the honor was bracketed with the 1961 prize, posthumously awarded to the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold...