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After 40 days of civil war in Lebanon, the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold led a task force of peace, hoping to avert destruction of the tiny country and disaster in the Middle East. In a stagnant and ugly situation, he represented a last chance...
...Security Council-such disparate nations as France, Canada, Sweden, Japan, Iraq-and a cool, but not final response from Russia's Sobolev. Then came the week's most dramatic turn. Sitting to the right of Lodge, who was president of the council, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold murmured that he would like to speak...
None was more startled than Lodge at the Secretary-General's decision: Hammarskjold had intervened in council debate only twice before-once during the Suez crisis, again when the Russians smashed the Hungarian rebellion. Hammarskjold could recall the fate of Trygve Lie, whose intervention on behalf of the U.N. in Korea had won Lie the hostility of the Russians and cost him the Secretary-General's post. But, at 52, Hammarskjold had just been re-elected to a five-year term, and for weeks he had been brooding about the disheartening deadlock over disarmament...
Last week, with UNRWA virtually assured of getting the $40 million it needs this year, Labouisse handed in his resignation and received the thanks of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold...
...Trygve Lie Lectures will be given in the Fall term each year, and the Dag Hammarskjold Lectures in the Spring...