UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and a staff of five left New York this afternoon on their mission to Peking.
This picture shows Sir Pierson Dixon (right), Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN, bidding farewell to the Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, as the latter was about to climb aboard the plane, at Idlewild Airport, New York. Standing at left is Mr. William Ranallo, one of the members of Mr. Hammarskjöld's party.