With Lester Pearson he headlined the resolution of the Suez crisis, but he would not survive a peaceful trip to Moise Tshombe's Katanga state.
His book of meditations, Markings, reveals his deeply religious personal philosophy. The son of one of his nation's prime minister, from 1936 to 1946 he served as finance specialist in his country's foreign office and then became president of the national bank. The next year, he organized the European Recovery Conference. With Lester Pearson he headlined the resolution of the Suez crisis, but he would not survive a peaceful trip to Moise Tshombe's Katanga state. FTP, name this posthumous winner of the 1961 Nobel in Peace, who died in a plane crash in the Congo during his second term as UN secretary general.
His book of meditations, Markings, reveals his deeply religious personal philosophy.
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl {Hammarskjold}