RALPH J. BUNCHE - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 166976
Price: $200.00
RALPH J. BUNCHE
Ralph J. Bunche signs a first day cover honoring the United Nations
Secretariat.
First Day Cover signed: "Ralph J. Bunche", 6½x3½. First Day
Cover honoring the United Nations Secretariat, two 13-cent United Nations stamps
affixed, postmarked United Nations, New York, January 19, 1968, FIRST DAY
OF ISSUE. Ralph J. Bunche, (1904-1971) who joined the United Nations
in 1946, was chief U.N. mediator in the Middle East in 1948 and was
awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a truce
between the Arabs and Israelis the previous year. He served as
Undersecretary-General for Special Political Affairs from 1958-1971, and
was a principal U.N. negotiator in such trouble spots as the Suez Canal (1956),
the Congo (1960), Yemen (1963) and Cyprus (1964). Bunche was awarded the
NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1949) and the Medal of Freedom in 1963, the
year he participated in the March on Washington. Fine
condition.
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