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...hours of trial for the cover story, edited by Henry Grunwald. For Writer Hughes, 40, onetime TIME correspondent in Africa and Germany, the international tensions of recent weeks have provided a world tour by typewriter. As well as writing this week's cover story on U.N. Assembly President Mongi Slim, he wrote the cover stories on south Viet nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem (Aug. 4), East Germany's Puppet Ruler Walter Ulbricht (Aug. 25) and Nikita Khrushchev (Sept...
Slowly, with dignity, dapper little Mongi Slim of Tunisia walked up the seven steps to the green marble rostrum and took his seat as president of the United Nations' 16th General Assembly. Before him were the diplomats who had elected him, a motley crowd of delegates from every corner of the world. "It is hard for me to express the great grief I experience," said President Slim, speaking in French. "The Secretary-General of the United Nations fell a victim to his duty. He died, one might say, on the battlefield of peace...
...these words, , the eyes of the listening delegates flickered to the place on Mongi Slim's right-Dag Hammarskjold's empty chair...
...also could take solid comfort from the fact that Mongi Slim was president of the Assembly. Slim is a man of Western orientation, experienced in Western parliamentary tradition (see box). In the further maneuvering over the succession this week, Slim's presence in the chair means assurance at least that the West will get equitable treatment on the embattled Assembly floor...
Assembly President Mangi Slim Family. Born Sept. 15, 1908, in Tunis, Mongi Slim (pronounced Monjee Sleem) is an improbable cross-breed of Mediterranean civilizations: Greek, Turkish and Arab. One great-grandfather, a Greek named Kafkalas, was captured as a boy by pirates, sold as a mameluke (white slave) to the Bey of Tunis, who educated him, freed him, made him his minister of defense. His paternal grandfather was an aristocratic Caid who ruled the wealthy province of Cape Bon. His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous...