Oral history interview with Margaret Bruce, 2003.

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Oral history interview with Margaret Bruce, 2003.

Family background, childhood and education, Girton College, Cambridge, 1949; Chatham House; Royal Institute of International Affairs; father's work at Rugby Day Continuation School; impressions of Germany in the early days of Hitler; United Nations, March 1946; work with Eleanor Roosevelt on Universal Declaration of Human Rights; women's rights; directed Status of Women Commission, 1962-1977; status of women and family law; effects of McCarthyism on the UN; sexual relationships between UN members; first International Conference on Human Rights; international politics in the late 1960s; first world women's conference, Mexico.

transcript: 45 p.

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