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UN Secretaries General History from 1945 to 2020: Kurt Waldheim, Fourth United Nations Secretary General

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It was difficult work but I had grasped the concept of re-channeling part at least part the USA's defense budget into something beneficial to mankind, so I talked with Senators and Senate staff about the idea that had been elucidated in the October 1974 UN Monthly Chronicle.

The reason I went as a Gandhian to Washington was because that Secretary General published his idea about re-channeling the arms race, to get the two apes superpowers off the treadmill.

Certainly, United States, Israel, Russia, and others must have known about his Wehrmacht past.

I really didn't. I only knew that he had been Austria's Ambassador to Canada and was a lawyer. Remember that he was elected to the position of Secretary General twice.

Not long before he died, Kurt Waldheim mailed a letter to me thanking me for my efforts.

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John Cornelius Stennis was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior member for his last eight years.

Born: August 3, 1901, Kemper County, MS

Died: April 23, 1995, Jackson, MS

Party: Democratic Party

Children: John Hampton Stennis, Margaret Jane Stennis Womble

Education: Mississippi State University, University of Virginia

Books: The role of Congress in foreign policy

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