Dag Hammarskjold
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Doug Hamashold - Is He a Snob?
Doug Hamashold came from one of the oldest families in Sweden that had produced many important public servants. Some people think because of his patrician background, he was a snob. But absolutely, this was not the case. He was very happy to talk to anyone and to take everybody seriously. And I think that perhaps being Secretary General of the UN meant that he could never really have had a happy domestic life. His loneliness drove him. He was haunted by self-doubt and he weathed himself in solitude. You feel that there is perhaps a lost love lurking in the pages but whether that's a particular person that he had to give up or an unspecified longing for perhaps for
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