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...Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations . . . . LL.D...
...capture a lynx when it came down, and he built 36 kinds of covert before he discovered an adequate way to hide and shelter himself and his camera. The film took three years to complete, cost more ($120,000) than Sucksdorff had in pocket. His chief backer: Dag Hammarskjold. Secretary-General...
...passed a resolution that member states withdraw their ambassadors from Madrid, and that Spain be denied any affiliation with U.N. agencies. In 1950 the resolution was repealed, and Spain is now a member of UNESCO and six other U.N. agencies. Last week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold went a little further: after repeated proddings from Madrid, he invited Spain to send an official observer to the U.N. * Francisco Franco's well-trained press exulted that this was further proof that the "yellow flag of quarantine" which once flew over Spain is being hauled down...
From Washington and Peking, the world got some remarkable facts last week about what Dag Hammarskjold brought back from his mission to Communist China. The U.N. Secretary General did not return with a promise that the prisoners would be released, but he did give to the U.S. State Department pictures and medical reports on the physical condition of 13 prisoners and invitations to their families to visit China...
...General Assembly had directed Hammarskjold only to seek release of the prisoners, but, he made plain, the discussions covered much more ground: such issues as the 35 Chinese students held in the U.S., Chou's demand to enter the U.N., and many other "grudges, worries, concerns." "No deals of any kind" were suggested, he said, but "there is a very definite link between" the prisoners and the Red objectives...