Secretary-General

Dag Hammarskjöld Funeral Service in Sweden

29 September 1961

Dignitaries from many lands came to the Swedish town of Uppsala today for the funeral service of the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.
Uppsala – the ecclesiastical capital of Sweden – is the place where Dag Hammarskjöld was raised.
Walking to the graveside is Uppsala cemetery here are (from left) Abba Eban, Israeli Minister of Education and Culture; Mme V.L. Pandit, of India, who was President of the 8th General Assembly; and Trygve Lie, of Norway, the UN's first Secretary-General.

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