Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. The late U.N. diplomat kept constant counsel with himself throughout his demanding life by recording the outlines of his mind and soul in these journals. It is an astonishing and often eloquent testament of a God-obsessed Christian who measured his actions against his creed...
Tshombe's fondness for the Belgians seemed stronger than ever when, during Katanga's secession, he insisted that Belgian troops remain in Katanga in preference to the central government's troops and to the United Nations soldiers sent to maintain order in the Congo. Dag Hammarskjold assured him that UN forces wouldn't interfere in his affairs, but Tshombe still refused to let them in. UN forces began to replace the Belgians in September. But Tshombe still had his own mercenaries. He neither cooperated with the UN nor dismissed the mercenaries. Through the end of 1962, Tshombe agreed repeatedly...
MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. The late Secretary-General of the United Nations called this journal a record of "my negotiations with myself-and with God." Sometimes exalted, sometimes in despair, Hammarskjold wrote only of his mind and emotions in a series of pensees, poems and meditations that reveal the iciest diplomat of them all was at heart a God-haunted mystic...
...speech--the third annual Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Lecture--is sponsored jointly by Radcliffe and the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists...
...Hammarskjold Markings...