“Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

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About Dag Hammarskjöld

Diplomat • Swedish

Dag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have...

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