Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual meeting in Cannes have proved to be poor tourists. Ignoring the pleasures of the Riviera, the IATA people have for two weeks been meeting morning, noon and night behind closed doors. Why the urgency? "This is the most important traffic conference in history," says IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold, nephew of the U.N.'s late Dag. "It takes place at the beginning of the era of real mass international air travel...
...service as Under Secretary of the U.N., or to his 17 years as history and political science chairman at Indiana's Manchester College. But some dissidents still found absurdly farfetched excuses to attack Cordier's record. They noted sourly that he was Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's special representative during the U.N.'s 1960 Congo operations. His hands, said the students, were bloody with the murder of Congo Rebel Patrice Lumumba. They also charged vaguely that he had supported CIA activities. Within an hour after Kirk's resignation, a small band of rebels was chanting...
...Lonely Boy. In Markings, Hammarskjold poured out the "true colors" that he was never able to display publicly. Van Dusen finds the explanation in a singularly unhappy childhood. Hammarskjold worshiped his gentle, pious Lutheran mother, from whom he received a conventional religious upbringing. He admired, yet feared, and perhaps hated his stern disciplinarian father, who was Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917. As he worked his way through the ranks of his country's civil service, the brooding, lonely man often contemplated suicide. "My life," he wrote darkly, "is worse than death...
...Dusen dismisses the familiar rumors that Hammarskjold, a lifelong bachelor, was a homosexual. His inability to establish close relationships with women, argues the author, stemmed from his admitted "extreme physical modesty" and a feeling that the desired "ideal of mutual understanding" was unattainable in marriage. Van Dusen also points out that Hammarskjold was too much of an intellectual prig to have had much luck with women anyway. When a friend once asked him why he was not interested in an attractive Swedish girl, Hammarskjold solemnly replied: "She didn't appreciate T. S. Eliot...
...event that finally brought Hammarskjold inner peace was his sudden, unexpected elevation to U.N. Secretary-General in 1953. An entry in Markings, about the time of his reelection to a second term, shows a strong affirmation of the faith he had abandoned while he was still in his 20s: "Yes to God; yes to Fate; yes to yourself." Between his diplomatic chores, Hammarskjold began translating the writings of Martin Buber into Swedish, and the pages of Markings are increasingly strewn with quotes from the Bible...