Q&A with Ravi Somaiya, author of ‘The Golden Thread’
Dec 14, 2020
2 minutes
Journalist Ravi Somaiya suggests in his new book that the United Nations secretary-general in the 1960s, Dag Hammarskjöld, paid a terrible price for his efforts to broker a cease-fire in the bloody civil war in Congo. Mr. Somaiya spoke with Monitor correspondent Randy Dotinga.
Q: What drew you to this story?
I came across this in an
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