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...bleeding ulcer and general exhaustion, will end his two-term, ten-year stewardship. That leaves the 130 delegations little more than a month to find someone acceptable to all of the contentious Big Five and also to a majority of the Third World. According to Finnish Delegate Max Jakobson, the ideal candidate for the $65,000-a-year post would have to be "a person who is of no religion and of no race, a person who has no attachments to ideology or political convictions or to any particular tradition, a man who casts no shadow...
Thinker and Doer. Jakobson, the strongest of half a dozen leading contenders, hardly fits his own description. At 48, he is a sturdy, affable former journalist who fought against the Russians in the Winter War of 1939-40 and later wrote a scholarly but unflattering book about the Soviet attack. Jakobson has strong support in London and Washington, where the State Department rates him "a thinker and a doer." Paris has been cool partly because he does not speak particularly good French. In addition, Jakobson is Jewish, and the Arabs, who have not said anything so far about his candidacy...
...departure precedes that of Secretary-General U Thant, who has decided to retire after ten years. Among the candidates to succeed Thant is Finnish Ambassador to the U.N. Max Jakobson. The French government, however, last week suddenly began to lobby for selection of someone more linguistically able. Distressed by the poor French of Thant, the French are hoping for a French-speaking successor. A favorite appears to be Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, who is the U.N. high commissioner for refugees and speaks the language exquisitely...
...stature meets quite all of these qualifications. Nonetheless, a number of men are being actively discussed: > U.N. Ambassador Max Jakobson of Finland. An able, easygoing diplomat, Jakobson, 47, has won high marks from most Arab delegates for his fairness on the Middle East conflict, but he is Jewish. Moreover, he would be the third Scandinavian-and white man-to be Secretary-General...
...Jakobson, 71, is a member of the Norwegian, Danish, Serbian, Netherlands, Polish, and Irish Academies of Science. He was made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1947, and received the Award of the American Council of Learned Studies...