KENNEDY President Kennedy haE decided to deliver an addreee - before thie seeeion of the General Aseembl of the U.N. ~ r - p ~ ~ wae still trying to make up hie mind - when word of Da g Hammarskjold's death arrived. The news, making up the President•s mind - for him. He feels that it 1 e more necessary than ever - to ehow that the U.N. has our full support. And that•s what K---~--~~ IIIJ;. fres1dentA.w111 pledge - to the••••••• delegates of the General Assembly. REACTION - )fributes to the man who was identified with the u.N. - for ei gh t years. Da g Hammar~ k old - Secretary-General eince Nineteen Fifty-Three. Spea ing for America, President Kennedy expreeeed - a "deep senee of shock~. Similar remarks on capitol Hill - and among our . U.N. delegation. In the worde of Adlai Stevenson - "DaB Hammarskjold was a soldier of peace, one ot the greatest of his age • 11 Throughout the free world tonight - profound sorrow. ~-.~-_.-,L The secretary-Qeneral waeu;;r~i'ted~by all who knew him,~ as a . •. A r '~*~~i.:;,.. stateemani ~- -Ril,a~ as a friend. Except, of couree - by the Russians and their eatellitee. HAMMARSKJOLD The be~t epitaph on Da g Hammars j old was spo k en - at the U .N. today. Said one diplomat from Asia - " We never reall y appreciated t h e Secretary-General, until now." Theee words, echoing the g eneral sentiment - at the International organization in New Yor l . The firm hand of the Secretary General, suddenl y removed - leaving the U.N. ~ in the turbulent seas or world antagoniems. What kind of a man was this - to whom the free world owed so much? Dag Hammarskjold came from one or Sweden•e - old ar1etocrat1c families. For generatlone the HammarekJolds have been prominent - as diplomats and statesmen. A good _ , , ~ · ,r , , - ~ ~ - a ; ~ - training for the p111, unaeeum1ng 1118mb or the family - who A.. became Secretary-General or the U.N. in Nineteen Fifty-Three. Actually, nag Hatnmars . kJold was a dark horse - backed by Britain am France. Most of us - knew little about him. But we learned - in a hurry. Under this Secretary-Geperal, the U.N. gaioed - a new authority. Especially in the Congo - where the U.N. operation was directly due to Hammars kj old. HAMMARSKJOLD - 2 It's no contrad1c1t>n to point out - that the Congo is etill unsettled. Or that the Secretary-General was killed in a plane crash - on a mission of peace to that troubled African nation. As Walte1f1ppman~ . once said - "Imagine what the Congo would be without the U.H! 11 Tonight the question 1e - what the U.H. will be without Dag Hammarskjold. CRASH FOLLOW HAMMARSKJOLD The disaster that took the lives of the secretary General and twelve others - occurred in the t 1 1 a t ~ o r ~ /'\... , , northern Rhodesia. The pilot, signallin g for a landin g - at Nd~la Airport. ,,guddenly breaking radio contact - with the ,,, control to~ r. A search party raced to the area - and found the wreckage, scattered through a grove of saplings. Miraculously, one U.N. guard - survived. Harold Julian, of the United States - who wae badly burned, but 1e recovering. Julian says that a eeriee of explosions rocked the plane - in the air. Then it plummeted into the foreet - with a shattering impact. This, minutes after Hammarskjold decided - not to land at Ndola. )f'ot to keep hie rendezvous - with ) / Katanga•e premier Tshombe, who ie at war with the U.N. U.N. H The death of the Secretar -General.- tra 1c eno h at -- ~ t i - - an e \ c eme at the wor .. t posEible moment for the U .N. The General Aesembl opens its new eeseion - tomorrow. The dele ates, already on hand. Diecusein the i r strategy n the cloa L rooms and coc tr tail parties. Now - everythin ie n c.haoe. The first thin on the agenda - to name a new Secretary-General ae quickly ae poesible. But - the Soviets have a veto on this. And Khrushchev has been demanding that the office of secretary-General -- be abolish•<!, ?placed by a three-man directorate - a~troika~ Which would give the Kremlin a built-in veto -- over the executive dec1e1one <:£ the U.N. ~ , "4 What will Khrushche-v do,A with~ U.N. cr1s1e!...r That question le agitating the delegates - gathered at their gleamin home on the East River. RUSK - Despite the U.N. crisis - Secretary of state Rus is oin ahead with his plan o confer with Gromyko. The direct conflict between the Soviet Union and the United states ove~ Berlin - won't wait. And Rusk doesn 1 t want to lose this opportunity to find out - whether there are any areas of agreement. Tonight, the Secretary of State a "working dinnet with Adlai Stevenson and other members of our U.N.delegation. It was originally scheduled ae - a last minute strategy conference. But Ruek, steveneon, and the reet spent much of their time discueeing - the future of the U.N. iteelf. WEST GERMANY The political situation in West Germany - contused tonight. The outcome of the election, 1ndecie1ve - because no one received a majority. Chancellor Adenauer and his Christian Democratic Party came closest - with two-hundred-and-forty-three eeats. But that•s a drop - from the for~er power of the Chancellor in the Bonn Parliament. The Socialists under Willy Brandt - gained twenty-one eeats. Which still leaves them with - only a hundred and ninety. Far short of what they would need - to torm a government. The djnamic Mayor of west Berliln loe 1:ng hie campaign - to become Chancellor. Actually, a rather small party - benefited moet trom thie election. The Fretmocrata, doubling their political strength - from thirty-three seats to e1xty-e1x. What next • for west oermany. Around Bonn, t h ~ ie - that the Christian Democrats will form a new government; B'~t with a new chancellor replacing Adenauer, who is eighty-five I BERLIN 'OLLOW WEST GE RMA Dur.n election n 1 ht, ten ~ast Germans voted - with their feet. S11ppin , thro h the Red cordon - to freedom in west Berlin. One of them, a Communist guard - who made sure that he wouldn 1 t be shot as he fl d. He carefully seized the un - of the man on guard with him. Then vaulted the brick wall - with a un in each hand. tlU The P resident of ?eru, arriYing in Aaerlca on a 1tat1 vieit - brought with him a special mes1age for the Cuban people, Manuel Prado, ■ peaking to a Dil crowd of an\1-Caatroit•• • at Mia ■ i airport to greet hia. President Prado, concluding hie re ■ arke, with the ringing a ■ ser.tion - •1 •• on r.our aide.• ii• aa4ieaoe - Viel - re ■ poi4in1 with ioud crt11 ot - •cuba ei, lu11ia no!• Thl1 i• - 8on1tltution leek. Officiall1 proclaiaed - by the ~reaident ot the United Stat••• laaglnt the 1ltuatioD - at ~hiladelphia, in SeYenteen light.J-SeYen. Th• roundiq lather• all then - la1hiqton, Jefferaon, ~adi1on, franklin, Baailton, ••• the re1t. Th•J kn•• the Artiolt1 of Confeieratloa • •••• o•t-aode4. L•••l•a too ••oh po••• to the Stat .. , 1i•iD1 too little to th• oeatral ao••••••at. Tb• atru11l• •a• - th• bi1 1\at•• - aaalaat th• •••11. fir1iala, deaaadin1 that po••• in the aatloaal leai ■ lat••• be deeided - bJ population. ••• Je.,1e7, de ■ aadiDI - one 1tate, oae Yote. ~onnectioat, •ua&••tilll - a co■~ro ■ i1e! - Two aoa•••• oa• decided b7 pop•lati - the other equal for eaoh atate. la other wor4a, the aoaae aad the ~•••t•, ••••tao• th•• toda7. ~t took aupr••• atatea ■ anship - to found the Aaerican democracy. and it all began on Septeaber Seventeen, ~eventeen Eight1-~even - the day the Constitution was aigned - juat 174 1ears. aso today.