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...case of seven, the tribunal ordered U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to pay legal fees of $300 each and damages ranging from $6,000 to $40,000 (for an "anthropologist and African specialist" whose field, the tribunal said, was so narrow he would be hard put to find a job elsewhere). The other four Hammarskjold was told to reinstate in their jobs. Ten of the eleven were Americans who had retired behind the Fifth Amendment last year when congressional probers asked them whether they were or had been Communists, and whether they were or ever had been engaged in espionage...
...some 40 fired in the past year (all but one by Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve Lie), ten others had appealed for similar redress, but nine temporary employees were turned down by the tribunal, and another case was referred to the lower U.N. Board of Appeal...
...Hammarskjold satisfied cooler U.S. minds by announcing that he would not rehire the four singled out by the tribunal, would award them damages instead. In all, the procedure may cost the U.N. between $135,000 and $185,000. But the U.S. Government, at any rate, seemed to feel it was worth that to keep such critters out of the international woodwork...
...British Commonwealth countries, the conference would be a failure if Russia were not there. The British hope to convert the Korean parley into a de facto Big Five conference and talk magniloquently of driving a wedge between Moscow and Peking. This week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold implied that the British approach was "cooperative and constructive," and Cabot Lodge, bowing to the inevitable, accepted a compromise that was a U.S. capitulation in everything but name. In deference to the U.S., the Assembly might not actually invite Russia to the conference. It could simply recommend that a Soviet representative be seated...
Marking the eighth anniversary of the U.N. Charter-signing at San Francisco, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold spoke his mind on the U.N.'s role...