Oral history interview with Margaret Joan Anstee, 2000
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- Name
- Anstee, Margaret Joan (Interviewee)
- Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Margaret Joan Anstee, 2000
- Abstract
- Family background, childhood memories from WWII; education, Cambridge, B.A. 1947, M.A., 1955; women's limited access to education; college life at Cambridge; interest in Hispanic culture and Spanish politics; experience teaching Spanish in Belfast; entering the Foreign Service, 1948; double standards for women in the Foreign Service; disappearance of Donald Maclean; first UN post in Manila, 1952-19 54; marital troubles; taught Spanish at Cambridge, 1955; UN acting resident representative in Colombia, 1956-1957; UN resident representative in Uruguay 1957-1961; UN resident representative in Bolivia, 1961-?; work with the Alliance for Progress
- Collection Name
- United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)
- Subjects
- Diplomatic and consular service, British; Anstee, Margaret Joan; United Nations Officials and employees; United Nations Development Programme; Alliance for Progress
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2000
- Note (Biographical)
- Under Secretary General, United Nations
- Note
- Interviewed by Thomas G. Weiss on December 14, 2000
- Note (Provenance)
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Gift, 2009
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13683186
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-s49q-rh13
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.