When I joined the UN in the early 1990s one of my many surprise encounters was with a large portrait of former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. It was prominently positioned above the desk of my boss, a middle-aged Austrian autocrat, whose physical and sartorial resemblance to Waldheim I found fascinating and deeply unsettling.
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Anne Gallagher AO is an occasional Spectator Australia contributor. She survived as a permanent UN official for twelve years before resigning
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