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people who were represented - they were not peoplewere central figures in their countries' diplomacy.whoHereand there was a judge like Sandstrom and Rand;somebodywith colonial experience like the Dutchman, AmbassadorBlom.Here and there would be a member of the ForeignService like Hood, the Australian.I would say it wasn'tthe most brilliant array of talent one could imagine.Few of them had wide international experience andtherefore the Secretariat became important. And itbegins with Trygve Lie who was a very activist Secretary-General. The fact that Hammarskjold was even moreactivist has tended to obscure this fact but he took anextremely assertive view of his role. First of all, hewas the first Secretary-General, and therefore would setthe tone.The three people he appointed were VictorHoo, Bunche and Robles. Stavropoulos was the legaladvisor.It became clear rather early on that althoughBunche was Number 2 he was, in fact, the central figure,I think, by reason of being an American as distinct frombeing a Taiwan Chinese. Also Victor Hoo was a verypassive sort of a person. He reminded me of what somepeople were later to say about U Thant.When it wassuggested that he was inscrutable, somebody said, wellthere's nothing there to "scrute".I can't remember inVictor Hoo any expression of an attitude, while Bunchewas to be taken very seriously - a decisive, dynamic6