At Hammarskjöld’s Grave, Sixty-Five Years After Ndola

At Hammarskjöld’s Grave, Sixty-Five Years After Ndola

  Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent. He died sixty-five years ago this month, on 18 September 1961, in an aircraft crash near Ndola, in what is now Zambia. […]