Flags of the 16 New UN 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 sixteen new Member States of the United Nations. The flags were raised one at a time. Here, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld (right) shakes hands with Representative Casardi, of Italy as a U.N. Guard raises the Italian flag. Other representatives from new Member Countries are Dr. Matsch (Australia), Mr. Szarka (Hungary) and Mr. Nogueira (Portugal). The Hungarian, Portuguese, Irish and Jordanian flags are already flying at right.