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...blame for Mr. Hammarskjold's tragic death lies entirely on the unfortunate U.N. action in Katanga [Sept. 22], trying to re-incorporate the "secessionist" province...
...officials began picking up the tag ends of the world's business where Dag Hammarskjold had left...
...precarious Congo operation was being run last week by the men who had been Hammarskjold's chief assistants-the U.S.'s Under Secretaries Andrew Cordier and Ralph Bunche. India's Under Secretary Chakravarthi Narasimhan-now dubbed the "Congo Club." By vote of the General Assembly. West Africa's Sierra Leone (pop. 2,500,000; area 27,940 sq. mi.) became the U.N.'s 100th member, just before the Security Council settled down near by to fight over Russia's package deal on two other membership applications, those of Mauritania and Outer Mongolia-a knotty...
Meanwhile. Assembly President Mongi Slim bustled about the corridors, dickering, discussing and listening to all sides of the unsettled argument over the succession to Dag Hammarskjold's vacant post of Secretary-General. The Soviet plan no longer encompassed merely a troika, a three-headed executive. Now Russian Delegate Valerian Zorin was talking about a four-man body-two neutralists (African and Asian), a Communist and a Westerner -each, presumably, with a veto over the others that would render the whole operation useless. Said one U.N. diplomat: "You could call them the four Marxist Brothers...
...pale sun of a late afternoon, a carriage of Sweden's royal household came to a stop before a weathered granite tombstone inscribed HJALMAR HAMMARSKJOLD FAMILY GRAVE. Six pallbearers in tall top hats and long black coats lifted down a mahogany casket, lowered it silently into an open grave. An eddy of wind blew a few leaves into the grave. "Sleep you now in the garden of heaven," said Lutheran Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren. "Rest in peace, Dag Hammarskjold...