Does anyone know of a servant of God in this century by the name of (sp.?):Hammerschtoll?

Question

I just watched an old program of Bishop Sheen He was talking about 4 people. Ghandi, JFK, Pope??? & this fellow. Wish he had written it slower/better!

Answer 1

I think Bishop Sheen was discussing United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. Son of a Prime Minster of Sweden, Hammarskjold was instrumental in establishing the marshall Plan in Europe and also was active in the United Nations.

Here is part of the article from Wikipedia. Please see the reference, below, for the rest of the article.

"When Trygve Lie resigned from his post as UN Secretary General in 1953, the Security Council decided to recommend Hammarskjöld to the post. It came as a surprise to him. He was selected on March 31 with the majority of 10 out of eleven states. The UN General Assembly elected him in the April 7–10 session, by 57 votes out of 60. In 1957 he was re-elected.

"Hammarskjöld started his term by establishing his own secretariat of 4,000 administrators. He set up regulations that defined their responsibilities. He insisted that the secretary-general should be able to take emergency action without the prior approval of the Security Council or the General Assembly.

"During his terms, Hammarskjöld tried to soothe relations between Israel and the Arab states. In 1955 he went to mainland China to negotiate the release of 15 US pilots who had served in the Korean War and been captured by the Chinese. In 1956 he established the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF). In 1957 he intervened in the Suez Crisis.

"In 1960 the former Belgian colony and now newly-independent Congo asked for UN aid in defusing the escalating civil strife. Hammarskjöld made four trips to the Congo republic. However, his efforts towards the decolonisation of Africa were considered insufficient by the USSR. In September 1960 the Soviet Union denounced his decision to send a UN emergency force to keep the peace. They demanded his resignation, and the replacement of the office of secretary-general by a three-man directorate with a built-in veto, the "troika". The objective was, citing the memoirs of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, to "equally represent interests of three groups of countries: capitalist, socialist and recently independent" [1].

"Like his predecessor Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold ended his term a lame duck, no longer on speaking terms with one of the UN's most important members, the Soviet Union. His bad relations with both the Soviets and the French led directly to financial crisis and the looming threat to bankruptcy, as both these governments refused to pay their peacekeeping dues. It would be up to his sucessor, U Thant, to rehabiliate the office of Secretary-General.

"In September 1961, Hammarskjöld found out about the fighting between non-combatant UN forces and Katanga troops of Moise Tshombe. He was en route to negotiate a cease-fire on the night of September 17-18 when his plane crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). He and fifteen others perished. There is still speculation as to the cause of the crash.

"The explanation of investigators at the time is that Hammarskjöld's aircraft descended too low on its approach to Ndola's airport at night. The crew had filed no flight plan for security reasons. No evidence of a bomb, surface-to-air missile or hijacking has ever been presented."

Answer 2

Dag Hammerschjold. I didn't spell it right either but it's closer. He was a Dane and former Secretary-General of the UN. He wrote a book that was popular at the time Sheen recorded that program (I've seen it, too) and was killed in a plane crash. He was a humanitarian but memory of him has faded and the book is no longer popular world-wide. I'm sure he's still quite well-known in Scandinavia. (My dad says he was Norwegian)

Answer 3

Always check the library, the interenet and maybe the bible may give you some help.