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...Hammarskjold's death has not created any great new crisis for the United Nations, simply because it has not fundamentally changed the nature of the organization or its capabilities, a University expert on international relations declared yesterday...
...Thus Dag Hammarskjold was buried, with ceremony usually accorded to Swedish kings, at Uppsala, the city where he grew up and studied. It had been a long way home: 5,000 miles from Ndola. the small Rhodesian town where the Secretary-General had been bound to negotiate peace in Katanga. When the body arrived in Stockholm aboard an American DC-yC, 250,000 mourners gathered for a torchlight procession. At Uppsala the closed casket, nearly buried in flowers, was placed in the 13th century Lutheran cathedral, where 15,000 townfolk came to say their farewells...
When the funeral ended, church bells tolled from Malmo to Malmberget; then everything in Sweden stopped abruptly for a moment of silence. Among the 2,000 invited guests was the Ambassador of Russia, which in the last year of his life had denounced Hammarskjold as "a bloody-handed lackey of the colonial powers." President Kennedy sent Lyndon Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Said Johnson: "The name of Dag Hammarskjold has entered history-and history confers its highest honors for heroes of peace." Dr. Ralph Bunche, who as a U.N. under secretary worked closely with Hammarskjold, was near tears. Said...
Sweden's 81-year-old Archbishop Emeritus Erling Eidem, who buried Hammarskjold's statesman father eight years ago, conducted the service with quavering hand. Opera Singer Elisabeth Soderstrom sang I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, and the Lutheran choir Work, for the Night Is Coming. Near the casket was a wreath of daffodils and two red roses. Sent by Hammarskjold's family, it bore a one-word inscription...
Ghana's controlled press, meantime, stepped up its anti-British campaign. One paper accused Britain of fomenting labor unrest, another charged it had plotted the death of Dag Hammarskjold. The Accra Evening News, angry at the proposed November visit of Queen Elizabeth (''the head of a bloated kingdom"), called on the government to cancel the invitation. But Nkrumah is still unwilling to give up his position in the Commonwealth. In London. Ghana's Acting High Commissioner Kwesi Armah called a press conference to erase any thoughts that the Queen would be unwelcome. Said he: "A hilarious...