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...Considering events in Katanga, we Norwegians count ourselves lucky that there was no U.N. and no Dag Hammarskjold in 1905; otherwise, we would have had Ethiopian and Italian troops here to prevent our secession and enforce the authority of the central government in Stockholm...
Invited to Budapest was Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, who apparently accepted despite the fact that Hungary still stands officially condemned by the U.N. (Thant's predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had refused a similar invitation in 1957.) At the same time, a group of 29 Western newsmen who had toured Hungary for five days were greeted effusively by Deputy Premier Gyula Kallai, who hinted, over apricot brandy and pastry, that the Hungarian government might permit Josef Cardinal Mindszenty to leave his sanctuary in the U.S. legation, where he took refuge in November 1956, if the U.S. is prepared...
WILLEM Adolf Visser 't Hooft is to the World Council of Churches about what Dag Hammarskjold was to the U.N. As the Council's General Secretary, he builds church unity by accenting common beliefs, by deprecating differences, by shunning extravagant or unripe measures. Yet a quiet faith that all Christians, including Roman Catholics, must eventually unite gives his life a clear direction. It is a just barely permissible joke among his closest friends to call Visser 't Hooft "the Protestant Pope." He replies with a wintry "I'm not infallible"-which is a rueful recognition that...
Unless memory fails me, TIME has never awarded its Man of the Year honor posthumously. Surely this year is the time to establish that precedent. Nobody anywhere on earth deserves this year the recognition more than the late Dag Hammarskjold...
Your forthcoming selection has not been so easy in many a moon. I am confident that even the Russians are placing a safe bet it will be that great statesman and worker for peace in our time, Dag Hammarskjold...