Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Donal Conor David Dermot Donat Cruise O'Brien, often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish diplomat, politician, writer, historian and academic, who served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 19
Cruise O'Brien in 1973
Dag Hammarskjöld
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl 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 1
Conor Cruise O'Brien
…1950s, as part of his official duties. He came to prominence in 1961, after his secondment from Ireland's UN delegation as a special representative to Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations, in the Katanga region of the newly independent Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Cruise O'Brien…
Hammarskjöld in the 1950s
Hammarskjöld's birthplace in Jönköping
Hammarskjöld (age 48) outside the UN headquarters in New York City, 1953
Hammarskjöld's grave in Uppsala