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...first foundations (the wartime Grand Alliance), mangled its basic assumption (Big Power unanimity), surrounded it with perils undreamed of by most of its founders (the H-bomb and Communist expansionism). The revolt against colonialism has all but doubled U.N. membership. Yet all these vast transformations, says Dag Hammarskjold, make the U.N., or something like it, not less but more essential. In this unyielding conviction, Hammarskjold believes that the nations are in San Francisco not to bury the U.N., but to reappraise...
...nerve center of the Secretariat is the immaculate 38th floor, paneled with Norwegian spruce and aflame with modern paintings: Picasso, Matisse, Braque. There, amid his paintings, toying with a small cigar at his clean Swedish-made desk, sits the man in charge of it all: Dag Hammarskjold...
Impossible Job. "My first job," says Hammarskjold, "is to run this House" -his name for the Secretariat. The Secretary-General hires and fires the U.N.'s multilingual employees, deals with New York City over U.N. parking privileges, approves the monthly bills for 100 tons of paper. 200,000 outgoing phone calls, and 335 cleaners who sweep 2,000,000 sq. ft. of flooring and seven miles of carpets. Hammarskjold runs his House with all the frugal efficiency of a well-brought-up Swedish housewife. He lopped $1,000,000 a year off the Secretariat's budget, last week...
...duty, laid down in the charter, is to "bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten . . . international peace." In practice, this means that the S.G. may inject himself into any international dispute he thinks he can help to settle. Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold's Norwegian predecessor, sometimes gave the impression that he thought he could settle anything. Earnest and eager, Lie once hawked his personal plan for 20 years of peace from one world capital to another. He got nowhere with it. Ruefully, Trygve Lie warned his successor: "This is the most...
...Bike. Dag followed family tradition, went into government service. He was Under Secretary of Finance in charge of the Budget at 31. At night, Stockholm cops would point to a single light burning in the Treasury building and say, "Hammarskjold's still counting." Occasionally he would stop at the barber's shop for a 7 a.m. shave on his way home from the office...