The description is Kenneth Boulding's, in his prefatory note to Lewis Fry Richardson, Arms and Insecurity: A Mathematical Study of the Causes and Origins of War (Pittsburgh: Boxwood Press, 1960). Richardson was, of course, no amateur in mathematics and meteorology; the reference was to his (posthumously published) writings on war.
2.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics ( New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932).
3.
Richard Hoggart, An Idea and its Servants: UNESCO from Within (London: Chatto & Windus, 1978). Subsequent quotations are from this book unless otherwise indicated.
4.
Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (London: Chatto & Windus, 1957; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958, in Pelican Books).
5.
These themes inform some of his essays newly published as, An English Temper: Essays an Education, Culture and Communications ( London: Chatto & Windus, 1982 ).
6.
Dag Hammarskjöld's Vägmärken were published posthumously in 1963 and translated into English by Leif Sjöberg & W. H. Auden as Markings ( London: Faber, 1964).
7.
John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974; Pan Books , 1975).
8.
Harold Nicolson, The Evolution of Diplomatic Method (London: Constable, 1954).
9.
'Commonwealth and United Nations: Explorations in Comparative International Organisation' in N. A. Sims (ed.), Explorations in Ethics and International Relations: Essays in Honour of Sydney D. Bailey (London: Croom Helm, 1981) p.174.
10.
Sydney D. Bailey , The Secretariat of the United Nations (London & Dunmow: Pall Mall Press, rev. edn 1964) pp.27-32. The quotation is from p.32.
11.
I have in mind Regulation 1.1 and the conduct provisions of Regulation 1.4; see Bailey, op. cit., p.110, for the relevant texts.
12.
'That fascinating symposium Recollections of the Cambridge Union 1815-1939 (Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1953) describes me, not unfairly, as having been in 1930 a "diehard League of Nations champion". I ... played an active part in League of Nations societies from 1923 onwards, first visited Geneva in 1929, and have been since 1931 ... a member of the international public service as an official of the International Labour Office.' C. Wilfred Jenks, The World Beyond the Charter in Historical Perspective: A Tentative Synthesis of Four Stages of World Organization (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1969) p.15. (The book is dedicated 'To the veterans of the League of Nations and the United Nations and their successors in the more spacious days to come.')
13.
As this article was going to press, the new UN Secretary-General announced Dr. Muller's promotion to be Assistant Secretary-General, Office of Secretariat Services for Economic and Social Matters.
14.
Robert Muller, 'Paradoxes of nationalism in an interdependent world', Transnational Perspectives (Geneva), VII.1 ( 1981) p.11.
15.
There is a voluminous literature on the 'common heritage' principle and international sea bed issues generally, including Evan Luard, The Control of the Sea Bed: A New International Issue (London: Heinemann, 1974) and Roderick Ogley, Whose Common Heritage? A New Law for the Sea Bed (London: Frances Pinter, 1974).
16.
I provide concrete instances of this point in regard to verification in 'Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament: Diplomatic Tensions and Perspectives ' in C. F. Barnaby & G. P. Thomas (eds), The Nuclear Arms Race: Control or Catastrophe? (London: Frances Pinter, 1982) pp.183-209.
17.
UN Doc A/36/1. 12 September 1981.
18.
Gordon Feller , 'Alicja Wesolowska: Security for those who serve ', Transnational Perspectives (Geneva ), VII.3 (1981) pp.9-11.
19.
Salim A. Salim (Tanzania).
20.
Kurt Waldheim, in the report already cited, stated that 'as a result of the strains and stresses ... the rank and file of the staff is sometimes disillusioned,' and went on: 'The security of international civil servants is of increasing concern to staff members and should also be of major concern to all Member States. The Secretariat has reason to be concerned that the commitments made under the Charter and the relevant conventions regarding the inviolability of the international civil service are not being fully complied with.' UN Doc A/36/1, pp.21-22.
