Dag Hammarskjold, Custodian Of The Brushfire Peace

Doubleday & Company, New York, 1961. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden city , New York (1961). Blue and gray cloth over boards, silver lettering. Tags bc bib web # 106 Collectorz.com Connect © Copyri. Very Good ++, tight, clean very light soiling front and back pace down and free end papers./DJ Very Good some shelf wear front and back,. Biographical Portrait Of The Man Who Is Said To Have Transformed The Office Of Secretary General And The United Nations Into A Major Influence In World Affairs. Dag Hammarskjöld played a leading role in expanding the operations of the United Nations (UN), most notably through the establishment of peace-keeping forces and through technical and economic assistance to poor and newly independent nations. He practiced "quiet diplomacy" to reduce conflict and to build an international civil service that could carry out functions necessary to maintain peace and promote welfare. His extraordinary intellectual brilliance and courage were widely admired. Doubleday & Company, New York, Stated First Edition, First Printing 1961. Very Good ++, tight, clean very light soiling front and back pace down and free end papers. DJ Very Good some shelf wear front and back, bumped corners and small open tear at top, some soiling. Unclipped $4.50 Blue and gray cloth over boards, silver lettering.