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Brian Urquhart was the second person to enter the international civil service of the United Nations. He witnessed the creation of the world organization at close range, played an important part in the invention of what later on would be labeled the “Blue Helmets,” worked closely with the first five Secretaries-General and rose to under-secretary-general himself. Even after his retirement in 1986, he remained a source of counsel and advice for those engaged in the efforts to organize an ever changing and difficult world. His death at the age of 101 marks the passing of the “first generation”
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