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Article: John Gilbert Winant at Geneva: the testimony of Sir Walter Crocker.
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- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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(Sir Walter Crocker, who died at the age of one hundred in November 2002, was born on a small farm in rural South Australia. He became a graduate of Adelaide, Oxford and Stanford Universities. He served in the British Colonial Service and then the International Labour Office (I.L.O.) in Geneva, before volunteering at thirty-seven to join the British armed forces in 1939. He was promoted Lieutenant Colonel, and decorated for bravery by the French and Belgian governments. After the war Crocker joined the United Nations Secretariat as first Chief of its Africa Section. In 1949 he returned to Australia to be Foundation Professor of International Relations at the new Australian ...
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