"Sir Brian Urquhart", Order of St Michael and St George/KCMG, Order of the British Empire/MBE is a World War II veteran, author and a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations.

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(The U.N.) actually took a lot of trouble to protect him.

No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were (only) 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.

It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates.