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Brian Urquhart Quotes

«It was predictable he would not turn out terribly well as the head of a very very large and complicated and rich country,»
«No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were (only) 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.»
«(The U.N.) actually took a lot of trouble to protect him,»
«It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates.»