Word: hammarskj
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammarskjöld LL.D...
...H.A.C. Hammarskjöld, U.N. Secretary-General LL.D...
...Hammarskjöld U.N. Secretary General LL.D...
...week's end Vishinsky had a chance to play the new peace tune as he likes to play it-cheaply. Dag Hammarskjöld, the neutral Swede, was sworn in as Trygve Lie's successor, vowing to "exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience the functions of the Secretary General." Afterwards, diplomats gathered round to welcome the new man and say farewell to the old. Lie and Hammarskjold started down the line, and the eighth man they came to was Andrei Vishinsky, who, for more than three years, has ignored or berated Lie as an "American stooge." This...
Career: After a brief spell as lecturer at Stockholm University, became secretary of the Bank of Sweden. At 31, became Under Secretary of Finance; five years later, chairman of the board of the Bank of Sweden. A neutral even within neutral Sweden, Hammarskjöld helped the Socialists plan Sweden's economy, then moved to the Foreign Office as a financial expert, but has joined no political party, has never run for office. Attended most of the postwar European economic conferences, cooperated with the West while defending Sweden's trade agreements with Russia; known for his nimble debating...