Dag Hammarskjöld remembered
Subtitle: a collection of personal memories
By: [Editors: Mary-Lynn Henley and Henning Melber]
Contributors: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation; Association of Former International Civil Servants New York
Publisher: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation; Association of Former International Civil Servants
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Uppsala, Sweden]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9789185214648
Description: It is now fifty years since Dag Hammarskjöld left the world and the United Nations behind. Yet, with every passing year since his death, his stature grows and his worth along with his contribution becomes more apparent and meaningful. When Hammarskjöld was at its helm the United Nations was still a relatively young organization, finding its way in a post-war world that had entered a new phase, the cold war, for which there was no roadmap. He was a surprise choice as Secretary-General, a so-called "safe" choice as there was little expectation that this former Swedish civil servant would be more than a competent caretaker. Few imagined that Dag Hammarskjöld would embrace his destiny with such passion and independence and even fewer could have foreseen that he would give his life in service to his passion. But as Hammarskjöld himself stated: "Destiny is something not to be desired and not to be avoided - a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning." That statement sums up his world view. This is a volume of memoirs written by people who knew Hammarskjöld. We hope that these memories succeed in imparting to those who never knew or worked with Dag Hammarskjöld the intrinsic flavour of this unusual, highly intelligent, highly complex individual who believed deeply in the ability of people, especially their ability to affect the world in which they live. He once reflected: "Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves." Today that advice rings as true as ever.
Notes: "December 2011".

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Foreword; title: Dag Hammarskjöld : second United Nations Secretary-General; title: Part I. Personal memories (2001); title: Dag Hammarskjöld: a leader in the field of culture / Brian Urquhart; title: Memories of those days / Alice Smith; title: An actor observes / Philippe Lecomte du Nouy; title: Coffee diplomacy / Bruce Stedman; title: Hammarskjöld's meeting with Dayan / Bruce Stedman; title: Promotion prospects / Sean Finn; title: A remarkable person / Donald R. Hanson; title: ONUC, September 1961 / Omneya Tewfik-Foz; title: Getting the news / Norma Globerman; title: A haunting memory / Cecil T.J. Redman, H.B.M.; title: Two poems / Yvette Ripplinger; title: Under fire with Dag Hammarskjöld / John A. Olver; title: Part II. Personal memories (2011); title: Dag Hammarskjöld: fifty years later / Brian Urquhart; title: A special human being / Isabel S. Bautista; title: Those were the days / Anna (Ankar) Barron; title: A statesman on the world stage / Natalie Thomas Pray; title: A trusting supervisor / Inga-Britta Mills; title: "Flowers of joy" / Katie Cangelosi; title: Already fifty years ago / Jean Gazarian; title: Leader, statesman, friend / Wilhelm Wachtmeister; title: Dag Hammarskjöld and Douglas Hurd / Trevor Grundy; title: Serving Hammarskjöld / Rolf Edin; title: An unusual letter / Per Lind; title: "Leave it to Dag": a personal experience / Knut Hammarskjöld; title: Part III. Dag Hammarskjöld in his own words; title: The international civil servant in law and fact; title: Last speech to the staff.