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Thus began a U.N. era that lasted roughly a decade and was characterized by 1) more or less secure Western ascendancy over the Assembly and 2) the forceful personality of Dag Hammarskjöld, who took initiatives that few of the U.N.'s founders had visualized as part of the office of Secretary-General. His U.N., of course, was useless if the vital interests of a major power were at stake: when Russia brutally suppressed the Hungarian uprising, the Assembly could only pass resolutions of censure. But the Hammarskjold decade saw two operations in which the U.N., for better...
...Retreat. This is what he told the church in his inaugural sermon, in which he also cited the late Dag Hammarskjöld's aphorism: "In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." The time has passed, said Hines, when Christians can retreat within their ecclesiastical for tress to recite prayers and polish brass. "The church is caught up today in the throes of a worldwide convulsion, the basic ferment of which is the thrust for freedom and dignity and hope on the part of the little people of the world. The church...
LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A study of Dag Hammarskjold, based on his recently published diary Markings...
MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjöld. This disturbing book is in out-of-stock demand in most of the U.S. It is a record of the religious doubts and mystical exaltations that possessed the late U.N. Secretary-General during times of crisis as well as tedium in the huge glass box on Manhattan's East River...
...popular image of Dag Hammarskjold has-changed more in the three years since his fatal plane crash than that of most statesmen changes in generations; and the cause is a posthumously published "spiritual diary" that he kept for thirty-six years, from the age of twenty until a few weeks before his death. Although Hammarskjold never showed this record to anyone, he decided sometime in the 1950's to leave it behind as "the only true 'profile'" of his personality...