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Portrait of Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

This picture, taken during the meeting, shows U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld (left), and Mr. Henry Cabot LODGE, Jr., U.S. Representative to the U.N., holding an informal consultation on the issue.

The new Secretary-General designate of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld (right) of Sweden, arrived in New York by air from Stockholm today. He will be inducted tomorrow afternoon at a ceremony to be held before the General Assembly. Here, at Idlewild Airport, Secretary-General Trygve Lie welcomes his successor as he was alighting from the plane.

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A view of the sun rising behind Long Island City and the sculpture, "Good Defeats Evil", by Zurab Tsereteli, in the north garden area of UN Headquarters. The sculpture depicts St. George slaying the dragon. The Dragon here is made from actual parts of a Soviet SS-20 and an American Pershing II nuclear missiles, and represents the specter of nuclear war. The sculpture was presented to the UN by the Soviet Union in 1990 and commemorates the dismantling of the missiles under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed 8 December, 1987 by Presidents Ronald Reagan of the United States and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union.

A view of participants in the press briefing with co-signatories of the letter calling for a halt to arms transfers to Israel.
Behind is a view of Picasso’s Guernica tapestry.

A detail of the “Non-Violence” or “Knotted Gun” sculpture by artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on the UN Visitors Plaza.

Then Secretary-General Kofi Annan said about the sculpture in 1999, “It has enriched the consciousness of humanity with a powerful symbol that encapsulates, in a few simple curves, the greatest prayer of man; that which asks not for victory, but for peace.”

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Headline Belgium Presents Tapestry to the United Nations

Caption Description The principles on which the United Nations Charter is based - Peace, Prosperity and Equality - are vividly represented in a huge, specially designed and woven tapestry which was presented to the United Nations today by Ambassador Fernand van Langenhove, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the U.N., as ""an expression of the profound attachment of the Belgian people to the ideals and work of the international organisation"". Measuring 43-1/2 by 28-1/2 feet, it is the largest tapestry ever woven and is the work of 14 Belgian artist craftsmen who put together 94,000 miles of yarn to create it. It was designed by Peter Colfs, an Antwerp artist, who took top honours in a nationwide competition in which over 100 artists participated. In the centre of the design, the Dove of Peace approaches the Fountain of Good Will. The borders are enriched with views of the chief cities of Member States of the United Nations, the predominant colour being green, the universal symbol of life and living things, and the traditional colour of peace.
This photograph shows a section of the huge tapestry as U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld (left), who received it on behalf of the United Nations, and Ambassador Fernand van Langenhove examined it after the presentation ceremony.

Unique Identifier UN7485434

NICA ID 337124

Production Date 10/08/1954 8:11:49 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/MB

File size 4.20 MB