Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Margaret Joan Anstee, 2000
Creator: | Anstee, Margaret Joan | Project: | United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP). (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteUnder Secretary General, United Nations
Scope and ContentsFamily background, childhood memories from WWII; education, Cambridge, B.A. 1947, M.A., 1955; women's limited access to education; college life at Cambridge; interest in Hispanic culture and Spanish politics; experience teaching Spanish in Belfast; entering the Foreign Service, 1948; double standards for women in the Foreign Service; disappearance of Donald Maclean; first UN post in Manila, 1952-1954; marital troubles; taught Spanish at Cambridge, 1955; UN acting resident representative in Colombia, 1956-1957; UN resident representative in Uruguay 1957-1961; UN resident representative in Bolivia, 1961-?; work with the Alliance for Progress
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2002
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