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Author:   Marta A. Balińska (Columbia University's Paris Program)
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.641kg
ISBN:  

9789639116177

ISBN 10:   9639116173
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 January 1998
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction I. The Awakening of a Sense of Responsibility (1881-1990) II. The Dream of a Social-Cultural Revolution (1900-1906) III. Towards Independence IV. Fighting Epidemics (1918-1922) V. The Health Organization: The Spirit of Invention VI. A ""Bold Game"": Mission to China (1929-1934) VII. Towards Catastrophe: The Thirties VIII. From Geneva to Nanking: The Common Cause of the Democratic World (1939) IX. Delegate of Sikorksi (1939-1940) X. An ""Undertaking Strewn with Adventures"" : The Soong-Rajchman Lobby (1940-1944) XI. A Melancholy World XII. The Watershed (1944-1946) XIII. An Emergency Fund for Children (1947-1965) XIV. A Pole on International Assignment Notes Index"

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It is a rediscovery of a utopian who believed in the efficiency of international institutions, in the troubled era of fierce nationalism. * Le Monde * Balinska's biography is peopled with a veritable pantheon of the first generation of international civil servants - from the Secretary-General of the League, Sir Eric Drummond, to Nansen, Monnet, and, as regards Britain, such notable internationalists as Philip Noel Baker, Lord Cecil, and Arthur Salter - who all worked closely with Rajchman and praised him highly. Monnet ascribed to him a rare 'sense of the universal', and the Irish nutritionist W.R. Aykroyd (a close colleague of Rajchman) observed that almost always he 'had the good of humanity at heart'. Balinska's study profusely demonstrates the truth of these lofty estimations, as well as of her subject's own profound conviction that co-operation can transcend personal, political, and national ambitions. * Medicine, Conflict and Survival *

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