Word: malmberget
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When the funeral ended, church bells tolled from Malmo to Malmberget; then everything in Sweden stopped abruptly for a moment of silence. Among the 2,000 invited guests was the Ambassador of Russia, which in the last year of his life had denounced Hammarskjold as "a bloody-handed lackey of the colonial powers." President Kennedy sent Lyndon Johnson, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Said Johnson: "The name of Dag Hammarskjold has entered history-and history confers its highest honors for heroes of peace." Dr. Ralph Bunche, who as a U.N. under secretary worked closely with Hammarskjold, was near tears. Said...
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