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...HAMMARSKJÖLD: A SPIRITUAL PORTRAIT by Sven Stolpe. 127 pages. Scribner...
...Hammarskjöld was a man almost nobody knew. His diary, Markings, published three years after his death (TIME, Oct. 23, 1964), surprised even his close associates, for it showed that the brilliant economist, banker, and Secretary-General of the U.N. was a mystical man, unfathomed during his lifetime, constantly tortured by self-doubt and despair...
...surprise to Sven Stolpe, one of Sweden's most distinguished writers and chancellor of the Swedish Catholic Academy. As a close friend of Hammarskjöld's since early youth, Stolpe was aware that at one time Hammarskjöld considered studying theology instead of economics, and over the years, through conversations and correspondence, he came to understand Hammarskjöld's increasing preoccupation with mysticism as well as his gnawing unhappiness. In this admiring and compassionate, but still searching volume, Author Stolpe strives to find the roots of what made his old friend the kind...
Stolpe supports the view of others close to him that Hammarskjöld, gifted with a fine mind and prodigious energies, was tormented by a profound and inviolable loneliness. Stolpe believes that this alienation from people around him can be traced to Hammarskjöld's childhood...
...Hammarskjöld's father, Hjalmar, Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917, was one of his nation's most hated men. Vilified by socialists and liberals, accused of being pro-German, nicknamed "Hungerskjöld" during Sweden's food shortage, Hjalmar left office a bitter man, aloof, isolated, cold...