Reminiscences of Thanassis Aghnides : oral history, 1966.

Biographical Note

Greek diplomat.

Scope and Contents

Education, University of Constantinople; League of Nations, 1919-1941; Sir Eric Drummond, Joseph Avenol as Secretaries General; preparatory and disarmament conference, 1932; Under Secretary General, 1938; discussion of League Secretariat and degree of national influence of Secretariat members; political pressures in Europe with rise of Nazis; effects for Munich, Albania, Danzig, outbreak of World War II; Greek government-in-exile, 1942; United Nations organization meeting in San Francisco, drafting charter; chairman of advisory committee on administration and finance; review of 21 years of United Nations: description of major crises, recollections of Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant, and many other League and United Nations staff members.

Subjects

• Aghnides, Thanassis, 1889-
• Diplomacy.
• Diplomats--Gucci--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• League of Nations.
• League of Nations. Secretariat.
• Oral histories.
• Siotis, J. (Jean), interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United Nations--History.
• World War, 1939-1945.