Book Note: Sean Lester The Guardian of a Small Flickering Light, by Authors Marit Fosse and John Fox**
Foreword by Michael Moller, Director-General, United Nations Headquarters, Geneva Co-authored by two journalists with long international experience**, this book highlights the accomplishments and failures of a highly capable Irish patriot, journalist, diplomat and international statesman. Although he had left school aged fourteen, had no experience of foreign affairs and spoke only English, in 1929 Sean Lester became the Irish representative to the League of Nations in Geneva eventually succeeding to the post of its third and last Secretary-General. …
