Human Death in Zambia - People Murdered in Zambia, Prisoners Who Died in Zambian Detention, Dag Hammarskjld, Herbert Chitepo, Alice Lenshina (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjld ()) (29 July 1905 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist and author and was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Hammarskjld remains the only U.N. Secretary-General to die in office. U.S. President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjld the greatest statesman of our century. Dag Hammarskjld was born in Jnkping, Sweden, but he lived most of his childhood in Uppsala. He was the fourth and youngest son of Hjalmar Hammarskjld, prime minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917, and Agnes Hammarskjld (ne Almquist). His ancestors had served the Swedish Crown since the 17th century. He studied first at Katedralskolan and then at Uppsala University where he graduated with a Master's degree in Political Economy and a Bachelor of Law degree. He then moved to Stockholm. From 1930 to 1934, he was a secretary of a governmental committee on unemployment. He also wrote his economics thesis, Konjunkturspridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle), and received his doctorate from Stockholm University in 1933. In 1936, Hammarskjld became a secretary at the Bank of Sweden, and soon he was an undersecretary of finance. From 1941 to 1948, he served as chairman of the Bank of Sweden. Hammarskjld's birth houseEarly in 1945, he was appointed as adviser to the cabinet on financial and economic problems, and he coordinated government plans to alleviate the economic problems of the post-war period. In 1947, Hammarskjld was appointed to Swedens Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and in 1949 he became the state secretary for foreign affairs. He was a delegat... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=236428