ABSTRACT
Over the years I have often wondered whether Dag Hammarskjold [Second Secretary-General of the United Nations, killed in a plane crash in the Congo, September 17, 1961] belonged to an age that is passing or to one that is being born. He was a bold innovator in world affairs, and he opened up a future, having carried further than it has ever been carried before the principle of international action to promote peace. Yet he was himself the fine flower of the European tradition of civility which, if it is not dying, certainly is not flourishing today.
