1965

History

Established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946 and originally known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the UN Children’s Fund has employed three approaches in discharging its mandate.* For the postwar period 1946 to 1950, the “emergency needs approach” meant swift action to meet the food, clothing, and…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965 UNICEF: Achievement and Challenge If Alfred Nobel had been alive today, I venture to believe that he would have welcomed the award of his Peace Prize to the United Nations Children’s Fund. He would have commended its purpose, its effectiveness, and achievement. He would have understood the infusion of new…

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Acceptance Speech

Acceptance by Henry R. Labouisse, Executive Director of UNICEF, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1965. After receiving the prize from Mr. Jahn, Henry Richardson Labouisse (1904- ), American attorney and diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to Greece, who, before becoming executive director of UNICEF in…

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Bibliography

Works in Russian Aleshkino serdtse. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Protiv chernogo znameni. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Nakhalenok. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Krasnogvardeitsy. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Dvukhmuzhniaia. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Donskie rasskazy. – Moskva : Novaia Moskva, 1926 Lazorevaia step’. – Moskva : Novaia…

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