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HAMMARSKJOLD, DAG. Two Typed Letters Signed, as United Nations Secretary General, to opera singer Bidu Sayão or Meet the Press program founder Lawrence E. Spivak, inviting to a reception or declining to give a speech [likely relating to the events culminating in the Suez Crisis]. Each 1 page, 4to, "Secretary General" stationery; staple holes at upper left of second, horizontal folds. [New York], 31 August 1955; 16 May 1956
". . . I appreciate very much your suggestion to go before your audience. My feeling is, however, that it would not be wise for me to make, at the present moment, further public reports on the situation in the Middle East."
