Dag Hammarskjöld

By Deane Barker • • tags: history, politics •

He was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and is considered one of the greatest diplomats in world history. He served from 1953 to his death in 1961.

He was killed in a plane crash in Congo. There are conflicting reports of the cause, and it was still being investigated into the 21st century.

On his death, John F. Kennedy said:

I realise now that in comparison to him, I am a small man. He was the greatest statesman of our century.

Why I Looked It Up

The novel The Copper Scroll described an Israeli Biblical scholar and his many achievements in promoting cooperation between hostile factions to increase access to Holy sites:

Indiana Jones, meet Dag Hammarskjöld.

Links from this – The Copper Scroll March 31, 2022
This is Christian/Conservative spy fiction, if that’s even a thing? It’s perhaps telling that the cover has a praise quote from Rush Limbaugh, and there’s another from Sean Hannity on the inside flap. (The author was on Limbaugh’s payroll earlier in his career, apparently.) This is #4 in a...