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...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...
IfMarkings isn't international law, neither is it-as one might expect-history. Auden remarks in a sympathetic foreward on the relative absence of references to politics and international relations. Hammarskjold, while writing Markings, rose from a brilliant economics student to become Secretary-General of the UN; yet he always subordinates external events to the moral doubts and problems that they engendered. Rather than describing, say, the circumstances of the Congo crisis, he prefers to reflect on the loneliness of power and the necessity of winning the right to be obeyed...
MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. As if it were some kind of Security Council document, the late U.N. Secretary-Gener al described this strange and moving jour nal as "a white paper concerning my nego tiations with God." The book portrays in aphorisms, essays, and even haikus Hammarskjold's mystical efforts to resolve agonizing religious doubts...
...Hoffenberg (3) 5. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (5) 6. This Rough Magic, Stewart (6) 7. The Man, Wallace (7) 8. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (8) 9. Armageddon, Uris (9) 10. Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby NONFICTION 1. Reminiscences, MacArthur (1) 2. Markings, Hammarskjold (3) 3. My Autobiography, Chaplin (2) 4. The Italians, Barzini (4) 5. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (7) 6. The Warren Commission Report (6) 7. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (5) 8. Future of Man, De Chardin 9. The Words, Sartre 10. Harlow, Shulman...
...Markings, Hammarskjold...