March 31, 1953 (, Kimi February 17), Swede Hammarskjold was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.

1953, 31, 2009, the United Nations Security Council nominated Swedish Minister of State Hammarskjold was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations "target =" _blank "> Hammarskjold succeed Trygve Lie as UN Secretary-General. < br> like the UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie was elected in 1946, the results of this unexpected break the impasse between the Soviet Union and the Western allies since the Korean armistice, the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time support a major move. ( history. com)
Trygve Lie resigned in November 1952, when many countries accused him of excessive cater to the requirements of the outlawed communism in the United States, and accused him take the salaries of the United Nations to meet the illegal subversive Americans the requirements.