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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. Here, Secretary-General Dag HAMMARSKJOLD
(right) shakes hands with Representative Alberico 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 (9 March 1956). |