Secretary-General

Swedish Eulogies before Dag Hammarskjöld Funeral

28 September 1961

A photo of the UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, looks out over a crowd of about 100,000 who gathered in Stockholm tonight to listen to eulogies about him from leading figures.
Here literary friend, Karl Ragnar Gierow, speaks from the rostrum. Tomorrow the burial will take place in Uppsala, the town where Dag Hammarskjöld was raised.

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