Never Learn to Type: A Woman at the United Nations

The United Nations System.

Preface.

Map 1.

Map 2.

PART ONE. THE EARLY YEARS.

Prelude.

A Rural Childhood.

Wartime Schooldays.

PART TWO. FRESH FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW.

The Groves of Academe.

The Foreign Office.

Land of the Morning.

English Interlude.

PART THREE. FIELD MISSIONS IN THE NEW WORLD AND AFRICA.

The Athens of the Americas.

The Purple Land.

On Top of the World.

At the Court of the Lion of Judah.

PART FOUR. INTERLUDE IN EUROPE.

10 Downing Street 1967-68.

UN Reform: The Study of the Capacity of the UN Development System, Geneva and New York 1968-70.

PART FIVE. RETURN TO THE FIELD: MOROCCO AND CHILE.

In the Shadow of the Atlas.

Chile: Democracy Subverted.

PART SIX. NEW YORK.

New York I: UNDP Headquarters 1974-78.

New York II: The Department of Technical Cooperation for Development (DTCD), 1978-87.

Special Missions and Thwarted Ambitions.

PART SEVEN. VIENNA.

In Vienna Woods 1987-92.

Debt, Development, Democracy and Disasters.

PART EIGHT. PEACE-KEEPING.

The Lands at the End of the World 1992-93.

PART NINE. POSTSCRIPT.

Life After the United Nations.

Epilogue.

List of Acronyms.

Index.