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  DAG HAMMARSKJOLD (SWEDEN)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he met his death in a plane accident while on a peace mission in the Congo.
Hammarskjold was unanimously appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations by the General Assembly on 7 April 1953 on the recommendation of the Security Council.
Hammarskjold was responsible for the organization in 1955 and 1958 of the first and second UN international conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy in Geneva, and for planning a UN conference on the application of science and technology for the benefit of the less developed areas of the world held in 1962.
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 Hammarskjold, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold (July 29, 1905-September 18, 1961) was the youngest of four sons of Agnes (Almquist) Hammarskjold and Hjalmar Hammarskjold, prime minister of Sweden, member of the Hague Tribunal, governor of Uppland, chairman of the Board of the Nobel Foundation.
Dag Hammarskjold was, by common consent, the outstanding student of his day at Uppsala University where he took his degree in 1925 in the humanities, with emphasis on linguistics, literature, and history.
Hammarskjold represented Sweden as a delegate to the United Nations in 1949 and again from 1951 to 1953.
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 Dag Hammarskjold - Biography
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905-September 18, 1961) was the youngest of four sons of Agnes (Almquist) Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, prime minister of Sweden, member of the Hague Tribunal, governor of Uppland, chairman of the Board of the
In a brief piece written for a radio program in 1953, Dag Hammarskjöld spoke of the influence of his parents: "From generations of soldiers and government officials on my father's side I inherited a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country - or humanity.
Dag Hammarskjöld was, by common consent, the outstanding student of his day at Uppsala University where he took his degree in 1925 in the humanities, with emphasis on linguistics, literature, and history.
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 Dag Hammarskjöld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in September 1961.
His name was Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarsköld He was born into a family rich in the tradition of public and military service on July 29, 1905 in Jönköping, Sweden.
Dag Hammarskjöld, who was the youngest of four sons of the Swedish scholar and noble statesman Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862-1953), spent his childhood in Uppsala (where his father was Governor 1907-1930) and in Stockholm (where his father was Prime Minister February 1914 to March 1917).
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 Dag Hammarskjold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold was born on July 29, 1905, in a small town in Sweden to a family that had aristocratic origins dating to the seventeenth century.
Hammarskjold recognized the need for the independence of the Secretary-General and worked diligently to insure that the UN was not perceived as being in one camp or another during disputes among various member states.
The United Nations renamed its library as the Dag Hammarskjold Library and designated the Dag Hammarskjold Medal to be awarded to UN Forces who die while performing their peace missions.
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 Dag Hammserskjold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold was born July 29, 1905 and died Sept. 18, 1961.
The son of a former prime minister of Sweden, Hammarskjold studied law and economics and taught for three years before entering the Swedish civil service.
Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash while on a peace mission to Katanga in the Congo.
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 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dag Hammarskjold was appointed Secretary General of the United Nations in 1953.
He was born Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold in Sweden in 1905.
Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in Northern Rhodesia on September 18, 1961.
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 Introduction To Dag Hammarskjöld Stamps
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarsköld (pronounced hahm'-ur-shohld) was born into a family rich in the tradition of public and military service on July 29, 1905 in Jönköping, Sweden.
Dag (1905-1961) followed, finally outshining them all when he was appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953, a post he held until his death.
Dag received his doctor's degree in economics in 1928 from the University of Stockholm, and his law degree in 1930 when his father retired as Lord Lieutenant.
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 Dag Hammarskjold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Dag Hammarskjold" is a common misspelling or typo for: dab, dad, dam, day, dig, dog, drag, dug.
Synonyms: Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold (n), Hammarskjold (n).
The Poet and the Diplomat: The Correspondence of Dag Hammarskjold and Alexis Leger (reference)
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 Press Room | Press releases | UN in Ukraine commemorates 100th anniversary of Dag Hammarskjold's birth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
anniversary of the birth of Dag Hammarskjold, one of the most admired and respected international leaders of the Twentieth Century.
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Today, the UN honours Mr Hammarskjold’s legacy by addressing the challenges of terrorism, war, poverty and the environment through the commitments made in the UN Millennium Declaration.
www.un.kiev.ua /en/pressroom/pressreleases/121   (399 words)

  
 DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD: The UN years ...
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
The fourth son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Prime Minister of Sweden during World War I, and his wife Agnes, M.C. (née Almquist), he was brought up in the university town of Uppsala where his father was Governor of the county of Uppland.
An authority on literature whose translations of poetry were widely admired, Dag Hammarskjöld's journal of personal and spiritual reflections was published posthumously as Markings in 1963.
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Information has now come to light that Mr Hammarskjold was murdered as a result of CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency) and MI5 (British Secret Service) involvement in the placement of a bomb on Mr Hammarskjold's aircraft on 18 September, 1961 in Northern Rhodesia, as it was then known.
The alleged plot to assassinate United Nations secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld 37 years ago was the brainchild of at least two British security agencies — MI5 and the Special Operations Executive — and the CIA, top-secret documents show.
As can be seen by reading his biography Dag Hammarskjold was a hands on Secretary General of the United Nations and was not a puppet of either Britain, the US or Russia.
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 Dag Hammarskjold --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dag Hammarskjöld refusing Soviet demands in 1960 that he resign as secretary-general of the …;
in full Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld Swedish economist and statesman who served as second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953–61) and enhanced the prestige and effectiveness of the UN.
Swedish economist and statesman Dag Hammarskjöld served as the second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953–61).
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 Reference.com/Web Search/Dag Hammarskjöld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dag Hammarskjold; Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Dag Hammarskjöld and the 21st century, The Fourth Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture...
Dag Hammarskjold, the son of Hjalmar Hammarskjold, prime minister of Sweden,...
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 Quotes of the Day for 29 July 2004 - Dag Hammarskjold
The Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold was born on this day in 1905.
His active career was capped by his unanimous election as Secretary General of the United Nations in 1953, and the even more amazing unanimous reelection.
Hammarskjold campaigned vigorously for peace in that post until his death in a 1961 airplane accident while negotiating peace in the Congo.
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 Carl von Ossietzky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kevin Carpenter (Oldefiburg: Bibliotheksund Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universitat, 1995).
Correspondence to Dr. Gabriel at Horzentrum Oldenburg, c/o Universitat Oldenburg, Carl von Ossietzky Str.
Carl von Ossietzky: 1889-1938, ein Lebensbild : von mir ist weiter nichts zu sagen
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 Dag - Definition of Dag by Webster's Online Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some.
A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.
Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
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 MSN Encarta - Dag Hammarskjold
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Hammarskjöld, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl (1905-1961), Swedish statesman and United Nations official, who served as UN secretary general for more than eight years.
Hammarskjöld was born in Jönköping on July 29, 1905, and educated at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm.
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 dag hjalmar agne carl hammarskjold - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Dag Hammarskjold, Peacemaker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold (pronounced HAM-mar-shold) was born in 1905, the son of the Prime Minister of Sweden.
Hammarskjold went in to negotiate a cease-fire, and was killed in a plane crash in Zambia on 18 September 1961.
For years, he had kept a private journal, writing down his thoughts on the Lordship of Christ and its meaning for his life.
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 Hjalmar Branting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As a boy he had gone to a socialist meeting led by Hjalmar Branting, the future prime minister of the first Labor government...
visit with the Myrdals in the company of his friend Hjalmar Branting is told with sharp irony.
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 Hjalmar from LiveJournal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gunnar Hjalmar, Vladimir Luukas (boys); Siri Deana, Skylar Aliisa (girls).
Werdegast tells his tale of woe-he's off to meet an old friend, a fellow war veteran and famous architect named Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff, back in the days when he was still billed soley as Karloff)-who also happened to have been the commanding officer that betrayed his charges at the fort that is now his home.
Hitler’s plans were financed by the fraud of "mefo" bills, Hjalmar Schacht’s sleight of hand which he repeated in Indonesia in the early fifties.
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 Artistopia Music - Dag Nasty Fanfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
'''Dag Nasty''' was formed in 1985 by Brian Baker of Minor Threat and Dave Smalley of DYS.
Brian was one of the original members of the much respected Hardcore band from Washington, Dag Nasty.
After a ten year dormancy, Dag Nasty prove that the chemistry and the soul of their music is still there and precisely the reason why...
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Dag Hammarskjold
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 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold - English dictionary meaning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold - English dictionary meaning
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 1961
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 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold Winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Peace
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold Winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Peace
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