Word: rossel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last night the first lecturer in the series, Mme. Rossel of Hammarskjold's own Sweden (the country from which his job usurped his political devotion, but never his cultural sympathy) spoke of the U.N.'s most personal and humanitarian works: the series started where it should, with individuals. But appropriate though this beginning is, the tough-minded Secretary-General would have encouraged a series that went on from here to lectures whose ideas might influence the expansion of the scope of international organization, and of respect for international law. The most tangible steps toward reform, development, and the relief...
Discussions of economic difficulties are becoming almost as common in the U.N. as those about political troubles, Mme. Rossel explained. She said that the economic consequences of disarmament must be settled before there can be any hope of reaching an agreement on that issue...
Human beings are the world's most important natural resource, and the United Nations is trying to see that this resource is used to its fullest extent, said Mme. Agda Rossel, Swedish ambassador to the U.N., last night at the first annual Dag Hammarskjold lecture...
Speaking in Sanders Theatre, Mme. Rossel emphasized that although major crises such as Cuba, Berlin, and disarmament are the U.N.'s most important topics of discussion, they are not the only ones. She said that the U.N. is presently considering many problems concerning the living standards and basic freedoms of the underdeveloped and captive peoples of the world...
...topic of the lecture is "United Nations Activities: an Analysis of Potentialities." A U.N. delegate since 1954, Mrs. Rossel was the first woman to head an official U.N. delegation...