Fifty Years of Staffing the UN Secretariat: Three Stages in the Quest for Merit

2. United Nations , The Charter of the United Nations, Art. 101(3).

4. PC/20 (23.12.45), `Report of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations', p. 92, para. 55.

7. Evan Luard, A History of the United Nations, Vol. 1. The Years of Western Donination, 1945-1955, p. 78-78 (New York: St Martin's, 1982).

9. United Nations , Yearbook of the United Nations, 1947-48, pp. 812-813 (New York: DPI, UN, 1949).

12. In the USA, this is usually referred to as `Jacksonian democracy', a system motivated by `egalitarian ideals'; see Felix A. Nigro , Modern Public Administration, p. 288-288 (New York: Harper and Row, 1965).

21. United Nations , Yearbook of the United Nations, 1946-47, p. 639-639 (New York: DPI, UN, 1947).

22. See, for example, Robert I. McLaren , 'The UN System and its Quixotic Quest for Coordination', International Organization 34 (Winter, 1980): 139-148.

23. United Nations , Yearbook of the United Nations, 1948-49, p. 162-162 (New York: DPI, UN, 1950).

30. United Nations , Yearbook of the United Nations, 1946-47, p. 90-90 (New York: DPI, UN, 1947).

34. United Nations , Yearbook of the United Nations, 1950, pp. 142-143 (New York: DPI, UN, 1951).

35. United Nations , Yearbook of the United Nations, 1951, p. 18-18 (New York: DPI, UN, 1952).