Brian Urquhart Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche, ca. 1932-1972

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Brian Urquhart Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche, ca. 1932-1972

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Sir Brian Urquhart (b.1919) was active in the organization and direction of the United Nations (UN) Emergency Force in Middle East (1956) and responsible for the organization and direction of UN peace-keeping operations and special political assignments. Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) was the undersecretary for special political affairs at the UN (1958-67) and undersecretary general (1968). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. The collection consists of papers of, about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by Brian Urquhart to write (1993). Items in the collection include manuscripts, his notebooks, project files, audiotape recordings, clippings, travel photographs, and memorabilia. Ralph Bunche: an American Life

48 boxes (24 linear ft.); 2 oversize boxes

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Urquhart, Brian

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Biography Sir Brian Urquhart was born on February 28, 1919; educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford University; served in the Dorset Regiment and Airborne Forces during World War II; personal assistant to Gladwyn Jebb, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, London, 1945-46; personal assistant to Trygve Lie, 1st secretary general of the United Nations, 1946-49; member, Office of Undersecretary...

United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971

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Ralph Bunche was Secretary of United Nations. From the description of Letter (typewritten) to Abraham Stavsky, 1967, February 28. (Regent University). WorldCat record id: 49291995 Ralph Johnson Bunche b 1904; educated at University of California, Los Angeles (AB), Harvard University (AM, PhD); Chairman, Dept of Political Science, Howard University, Washington DC, 1928-1950; Director, Trusteeship Department, Unted Nations, 1946-1954; acting UN Mediator on Palestine, 1948-1949...