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That was when I first learned what the United Nations and who Dag Hammarskjold were. It was almost seven years later that I watched a tearful Pauline Frederick son tell the world that Hammarskjold was dead. His airplane had crashed--or had been shot down--just as it was about to land at Ndola, a small town on the border between the Congolese province of Katanga and Rhodesia. Hammarskjold had flown there to talk with Moise Tshombe, intending to negotiate not only a ceasefire but the terms under which Katanga would eventually be re-unified with the rest...
...books to press. The better of the biographies restricted themselves to recounting his career. Too many of the others filled the void with scribblings ranging from near slander to the vaguest musings about the man's personal affairs to pompous pronouncements on his virtues and shortcomings. As a result, Dag Hammarskjold the man remained an enigma to all but the circle of his closer friends...
...career, except when it impinges upon Beskow's private story. Perhaps even Beskow's term for his book, "a portrait," is incorrect, because one does not begin to get, even at a single point in time, a full picture of the man. It is obvious that Beskow knew Dag Hammarskjold well, but it is equally obvious that there was much he did not know. That is why it is so pleasing to find Beskow never straying form what he knows, and knows well. He talks about meeting Hammarskjold, about buying him a seashore cottage near his own, about the books...
...poor tourists. Ignoring the pleasures of the Riviera, the IATA people have for two weeks been meeting morning, noon and night behind closed doors. Why the urgency? "This is the most important traffic conference in history," says IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold, nephew of the U.N.'s late Dag. "It takes place at the beginning of the era of real mass international air travel...
...service as Under Secretary of the U.N., or to his 17 years as history and political science chairman at Indiana's Manchester College. But some dissidents still found absurdly farfetched excuses to attack Cordier's record. They noted sourly that he was Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's special representative during the U.N.'s 1960 Congo operations. His hands, said the students, were bloody with the murder of Congo Rebel Patrice Lumumba. They also charged vaguely that he had supported CIA activities. Within an hour after Kirk's resignation, a small band of rebels was chanting...