Flags of the 16 New U.N. Member Nations Fly at Headquarters

A brief ceremony took place this afternoon at U.N. Headquarters, in New York, on the occasion of the first raising of the flags of the 16 new Member States of the United Nations, admitted last December.
This picture shows Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who presided over the ceremony, delivering a short speech. He described the occasion as a "symbolic confirmation of a significant event in the history of the United Nations", and added: "With these new Members, the United Nations has been strengthened in its capacity to serve the most essential purposes of world organisation because it has taken a long step toward universality."