Sir Pierson Dixon Presides over Security Council

Sir Pierson Dixon, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the U.N., is this month's President of the Security Council (the Council's Presidency is held monthly in turn by the member states in English alphabetical order).
Seen here, clockwise around the conference table, at today's meeting: Mr. Selin Sarper, of Turkey; Mr. Andrei Y. Vyshinsky, of the Soviet Union; U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld; Sir Pierson Dixon; Mr. Ilya S. Tchernychev, Assistant Secretary-General for Political and Security Council Affairs; Mr. James J. Wadsworth, of the United States; Prof. Ernesto Leme, of Brazil; and Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang, of China.