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...spokesman said Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was considering making a visit to Laos, but it would have no connection with the report to the Council...
Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold, who had accepted an invitation to speak at the dedication, also will not come to the Law School. Hammarskjold customarily remains in New York while the UN remains in session, and his original acceptance of the Law School's invitation represented a break with traditional protocol...
...Khrushchev, each in his own fashion, made a display of moderation in anticipation of their forthcoming exchange of visits. But in Washington representatives of the SEATO powers were gravely considering the most serious military threat their alliance had ever faced, and in Rio de Janeiro U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cut short a Latin American tour to fly back to New York for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. While Moscow burbled of a "thaw in the cold war," new Communist aggression in Laos had plunged Asia into a crisis that, unchecked, might broaden, Korea-style, into...
Hoping to forestall further attacks, Laos' hard-pressed Premier Phoui Sananikone rushed his brother, former Defense Minister Ngon Sananikone, to New York to put Laos' case before U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Peking promptly huffed that "serious consequences" would follow if the U.N. sent observers to Laos, and held secret conferences in Peking with North Viet Nam Boss Ho Chi Minh. Moscow's Pravda blamed all the trouble on the U.S., and said that the Laotian government is pushing the country to "the abyss of civil war" by a policy of "terror and savage reprisals against...
...having proved his courage in crisis, the King still finds his efforts to achieve stability in Jordan blocked by the Palestinian refugees, that disgruntled one-third of the nation upon which foreign and domestic demagogues play. Any real effort to improve living conditions in Jordan, such as the recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could...