November 28, 2012

Politics

Guess which continent wasn't politically important enough for UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld's head to not block in this posed picture.



That's a bit unfair. He died in a plane crash in Africa on his was to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to negotiate a cease fire between factions that were tearing the country apart in the "Congo Crisis". Granted, UN members such as the United States, Belgium and the Soviet Union were using it as a playground for the Cold War, and completely undermined anything a neutral member of the UN could do. Also Dag was an economist so he couldn't have been that bad. Then again:




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