Marit Fosse, John Fox

Sean Lester

The Guardian of a Small Flickering Light

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although he had left school aged fourteen, had no experience of foreign affairs and spoke only English, in 1929 Sean Lester became the Irish representative to the League of Nations in Geneva, eventually succeeding to the post of its third and last Secretary-General. In his dairies he witnessed many dark chapters of European history in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780761866107
• ISBN-10: 0761866108
• Artikelnr.: 42953496

Autorenporträt

By Marit Fosse and John Fox

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Michael Moller
Acting Director-General
United Nations Headquarters
Geneva Introduction 1. A Brief Account of Recent Irish history 2. Who Was Sean Lester? 3. The Diplomat 4. The Manchurian Question 5. Latin American Matters 6. Disarmament and Finance 7. Secretariat Appointments 8. Minority Questions 9. Appointed High Commissioner in Danzig 10. Danzig
1933 and 1934 11. Danzig
1935 12. Danzig
1936 and Beyond 13. Ethiopia/Abyssinia 14. Deputy Secretary-General
1937-1940 15. War Begins
1939 16. The Summer of 1940 17. Becoming Secretary-General 18. The End of the League Bibliography Index