UN Assembly Commemorates 10th Anniversary of Human Rights Declaration

This photograph was taken as Dr. Charles Malik (Lebanon), Assembly President, addressed the meeting. Seated on either side of him at the presidential rostrum are UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld (left); and Mr. Andrew W. Cordier, Executive-Assistant to the Secretary-General. In the foreground on the podium, waiting to speak, are (l. to r.): Mr. R.S.S. Gunewardene (Ceylon), the present Chairman of the Human Rights Commission; Mr. Guillaume Georges-Picot (France), who read a message from former Chairman Rene Cassin; and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt (U.S.), the first Commission Chairman.