Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Henning Melber
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
Assessment Of Evidence ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

This chapter outlines the rationale and context that motivates the discussions in the book, and also summarizes the current literature on Dag Hammarskjöld. It points to the differences in analyses, perceptions and judgments concerning his influence and role as UN Secretary-General by looking at the potential flaws in methodology and assessment of evidence as regards Hammarskjöld’s influence and interests, as well as his ethics. It engages with the pitfalls and challenges of navigating through and verifying reliable evidence, as well as keeping fact separate from fiction. This chapter also explains the book’s approach, which to a large extent relies on the use of primary texts authored by Hammarskjöld throughout his time in office.

Arab League

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-653 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
United Arab Republic ◽  
Arab League ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Relief Program ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

According to press reports from Beirut, Lebanon, on August 11 and 18, 1959, representatives of nine Arab states—all the members of the Arab League except Tunisia—were preparing a lengthy reply to the suggestion of Mr. Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the UN, that the Palestine refugees being sheltered by various Arab countries be economically integrated into these countries. Spokesmen for the Arab states declared at the end of a tenday conference that they would unanimously support the refugees' demand to return to their homes in what had become the state of Israel; this was tantamount to rejection of Mr. Hammarskjold's proposal to spend $1.5–$2 billion within the next five years to create productive jobs for about one million refugees living in Arab lands. Although the Secretary-General had asserted that economic integration would not prejudice any rights of the refugees, the Arabs interpreted the plan to mean that the refugees would be permanently resettled among them. Apparently the only part of Mr. Hammarskjold's report that was acceptable to the Arabs was that calling for the continued existence of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the organization administering the relief program for refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, and the United Arab Republic.

Dag Hammarskjöld's Conception of His Office

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Lash
Keyword(s):  
Secretary General ◽  
The One ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

In one of his first declarations as Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld said that no part of his task was “more challenging than the one which consists in trying to develop all the potentialities of that unique diplomatic instrument which the Charter has created in the institution called the Secretary-General of the U.N.”

General Assembly

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-235
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

Fourth United Nations Technical Assistance Conference: On November 12 and 13, 1953, the Fourth United Nations Technical Assistance Conference was held at United Nations headquarters, with Ernest G. Chauvet (Haiti) serving as president. In a welcoming address Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold stated that since the inception of the expanded program of technical assistance, 3,000 experts had given their services to almost 100 countries and 4,000 fellows had been given training. Not only were 70 governments contributing to the special account, but many countries which did not contribute to this account provided experts or acted as hosts to fellows, he reported.

Dag Hammarskjöld as Leader: A Problem of Definition

1982 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-635
Author(s):  
L.S. Trachtenberg
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Empty Shell ◽  
National Leader ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective Performance ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The One ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

The Secretary-Generalship of the United Nations is a unique post. While enjoying none of the actual powers of a great national leader, the Secretary-General, by virtue of his position and prestige, has unrivalled possibilities for constructive and conciliatory action in the world, and in times of crisis he also has an ultimate, though vaguely defined, responsibility for maintaining the peace. Of all important public positions, his is perhaps the one in which spiritual strength, integrity, and courage are most essential to effective performance, for without them the office, lacking the normal trappings and supports of power, is an empty shell of high-sounding principles and good but unfulfilled intentions.

Secretariat

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 530-531
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Big Four ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

Annual Report of the Secretary-General: In the introduction to the tenth annual report of the Secretary-General on the work of the United Nations, which covered the period of July I, 1954, to June 15, 1955, Dag Hammarskjold stated that the tenth year of the existence of the United Nations, unlike the previous nine, had seen a lessening of tension in world affairs; he cited the Austrian Treaty, the meeting of the Big Four at Geneva, and the Bandung Conference as examples of developments which “… give reason for hope that they may be followed by others in the same direction.

Secretariat

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-657
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
International Community ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
New Members ◽  
Single Task ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, in the introduction1 to his fifteenth annual report on the work of the UN, June 16, 1959, to June 15, 1960, observed that the year had been characterized by 1) the development into independence of a number of African states, and 2) the importance of this development for the international community, (a) in the new UN membership of these states, and (b) in developments in the Republic of the Congo, which had provided the UN with the greatest single task thus far confronting it. These developments, he continued, had created for the Organization a responsibility to further and support the independence of the new nations, and were a test both of its parliamentary institutions and of the efficiency and strength of its executive. Negative aspects of these developments were an intense anti-colonialism, which had overflowed in a strong resistance to any suspected attempt of interference from outside and in elements of racism, and, in the parliamentary sphere, the new problem of longer debates and more cumbersome proceedings, although it was the conviction of the Secretary-General that the addition of new members to the UN would result in increased democratization of proceedings by lessening the influence of firm groupings with firm engagements

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