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    Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn GCMG GCVO CB PC (25 April 1900 – 24 October 1996) was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician...
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  • Cynthia Jebb, Baroness Gladwyn (née Noble; 20 November 1898 – 21 September 1990) was an English political hostess and diarist. She was noted as the wife...
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  • succeeded in 1996. Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn (1900–1996) Miles Alvery Gladwyn Jebb, 2nd Baron Gladwyn (1930–2017) "No. 42006". The London...
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    December 2007. Campbell, Alan (23 September 2004). "Jebb, (Hubert Miles) Gladwyn, first Baron Gladwyn (1900–1996), diplomatist". Oxford Dictionary of National...
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    Joshua Gladwyn Jebb of Barnby Moor House, born 1839. He was father of Captain Sydney Gladwyn Jebb JP, of Firbeck Hall, and grandfather of Gladwyn Jebb of...
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    in Iranian Azerbaijan and British forces in Greece. British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb served as interim secretary-general. The General Assembly selected New...
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  • anthropologist Gladwyn Jebb (1900-1996), British civil servant, diplomat, politician and Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations (1945-1946) Gladwyn Kingsley...
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  • to be director of the new organisation, and a senior civil servant, Gladwyn Jebb, transferred from the Foreign Office to it, with the title of Chief Executive...
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    Afterwards Lloyd rang Gladwyn Jebb in Paris and asked him to arrange a further meeting with Pineau, Bourges-Manoury and Jebb himself. There was then...
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    In April 1939, during a secret meeting with the British diplomat Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Goerdeler stated that if the British continued with their "containment"...
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    Rosnay's mother, Stella Jebb, is English, daughter of diplomat and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Gladwyn Jebb, and great-great-granddaughter...
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    politicians Gladwyn Jebb and Andrew Phillips, who both claimed that the purpose of the pact was to discourage socialist legislation. Lord Gladwyn pointed...
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    in 1844, and in 1887, Henry Gladwyn Jebb commissioned the builders E I Hubbard of Rotherham to enlarge it further. When Jebb died, a tower was added in...
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    asked for a message to be passed to his mother, now dead. Together with Gladwyn Jebb he helped to negotiate the Italian armistice in August 1943, between...
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    reconsider. On 2 March 1953, Gladwyn Jebb announced that he would be calling a meeting of the Security Council the following week. Jebb claimed that Pearson was...
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  • Jebb, former US Army officer Cynthia Jebb, Lady Gladwyn (1898–1990), English diarist and socialite David Jebb, Irish engineer Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (1845–1925)...
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    from 00:35 on 25 June. Alexander Cadogan of the Foreign Office sent Gladwyn Jebb, then a fairly junior official, to ask de Gaulle to tone down his next...
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    Assembly opened on 10 January 1946 at the Methodist Central Hall in London. Gladwyn Jebb, executive secretary of the UN, notified Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel, head...
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    Intelligence Service members and Foreign Office staff that included Gladwyn Jebb, Earl Jellicoe, and MI6 Chief Peter Dwyer and a Balkans specialist.[citation...
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    United Nations In office 2 February 1946 – 10 November 1952 Preceded by Gladwyn Jebb (acting) Succeeded by Dag Hammarskjöld Minister of Foreign Affairs In...
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  • # Secretary-General Dates in office Memoirs Title - Sir Gladwyn Jebb (acting) 24 October 1945 – 2 February 1946 ? 1 Trygve Halvdan Lie 2 February 1946...
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    Connolly's social circle expanded with new friends like Bob Boothby and Gladwyn Jebb. However, he was ill at ease and in April 1928 set off for Paris, where...
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  • organisations Preceded by Joseph Avenol Secretary-General of the League of Nations 1940–1946 Succeeded by Gladwyn Jebb as acting United Nations Secretary-General...
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    Layton, 1st Baron Layton (1952–1955) Post vacant (1955–1965) Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn (1965–1988) 1945–1956 1956–1967 1967–1976 Notes The first election...
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  • the Republic of China—and by a majority of the other 46 signatories. Gladwyn Jebb served as Acting Secretary-General from 24 October 1945 to 2 February...
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  • history was threatened. Thomas was married to Hon. Vanessa Jebb, a painter and daughter of Gladwyn Jebb, the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General and...
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    August 1950  Soviet Union Yakov Malik September 1950  United Kingdom Gladwyn Jebb October 1950  United States Warren Austin November 1950  Yugoslavia Aleš...
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  • December 2014 William Strang — Queen Elizabeth II Baron Gladwyn 12 April 1960 15 August 2017 Gladwyn Jebb Former Ambassador to France Baron Erroll of Hale 19...
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    were published under the title: "I Planned the Peace Loan to Germany". Gladwyn Jebb, the private secretary to Sir Alexander Cadogan, the Permanent Undersecretary...
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    1943, University of Delaware Press, pp. 89–90 ISBN 0-87413-295-9. Gladwyn Jebb's eyewitness account recorded in 16 December 1943 diary entry of Harold...
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