Preview
Publisher
Grand Forks Herald
Identification #
OGLMC 390
Creation Date
9-24-1961
Description
Cartoon depicts the United Nations as it begins to crumble into a crack in the Earth called "Dags Death. Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev campaigned to replace United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjoold with a board of three men. Following the death of Hammarskjoold, the United States and other nations felt strongly that a single leader should be named.
Alternative title: Beginning of the End; Shaken to its very foundation
Subject
Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons
Places Depicted
Earth
Organizations Depicted
United Nations
People Depicted
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961; Krushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
Rights
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
Keywords
United Nations, Dag Hammarskjoold, Globe, Nikita Khrushchev, Globes, Buildings--Earthquake effects, Foundations, Death