Off on Mission to Africa-United Nations' secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold, right, walks toward plane at New York's Idlewild Airport tonight as he prepares to leave on mission to Africa. With him is Mekki Abbas, executive secretary of the U.N. Commission for Africa, who saw Hammarskjold off on 19-day journey. The secretary-general will go to Leopoldville in The Congo and then to the Union of South Africa, the United Arab Republic and possibly to India.

Associated Press · [ca. January 1961]

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