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After the Second World War, Jebb served as Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations in August 1945 and served as Acting United Nations Secretary-General from October 1945 to February 1946, when the first Secretary-General was appointed,
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from 1954 to 1960. He was the first permanent UN representative of the United Kingdom. In the latter role, he was angered that secret negotiations between the British,
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from 1973 to 1976, where he was also the Vice-President of the Parliament's Political Committee. Jebb unsuccessfully contested the
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Jebb died on 24 October 1996 at the age of 96, the 51st anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. He is buried at
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When asked in the early 1960s why he had joined the Liberal Party, he replied that the Liberals were a party without a
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and that he was a general without a party. Like many Liberals, he passionately believed that education was the key to
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Jebb remains the only UN Secretary-General or Acting Secretary-General to come from a permanent member state of the
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from 1965 to 1988 and spokesman on foreign affairs and defence. An ardent European, he served as a
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without his knowledge and, in certain respects, that he was sidelined by Prime Minister
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Titan at the foreign office : Gladwyn Jebb and the shaping of the modern world
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on full Ambassador's pay. Gad! I wonder what old Gladwyn Jebb's doing".
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Provisional Secretary-General prior to the election of Trygve Lie.
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broadcast on 16 February 1959 entitled "The Gold Plate Robbery",
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at the Conference of Foreign Ministers before serving as the
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Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
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in 1949. On 12 April 1960 Jebb was created a hereditary
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Permanent Commission with personal rank of ambassador.
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Jebb's rather "grand" manner caused Foreign Secretary
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The son of Sydney Gladwyn Jebb JP, of Firbeck Hall,
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The Right Honourable
GCMG
GCVO
CB
PC

House of Lords
hereditary peer
Member of the European Parliament
British Ambassador to France
Sir Oliver Harvey
Sir Pierson Dixon
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Seán Lester
Secretary-General of the League of Nations
Trygve Lie
Yorkshire
England
Suffolk
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Liberal and Democratic Group
Cynthia Noble
Tatiana de Rosnay
Sandroyd School
Eton College
Alma mater
Magdalen College, Oxford

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