Leslie Munro
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The Honourable Sir Leslie Munro KCMG KCVO |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Hamilton West |
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In office 1969 – 1972 |
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| Succeeded by | Dorothy Jelicich |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Waipa |
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In office 1963 – 1969 |
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| Preceded by | Hallyburton Johnstone |
| 14th President of the United Nations General Assembly | |
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In office 17 September 1957 – 16 September 1958 |
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| Preceded by | Wan Waithayakon |
| Succeeded by | Charles Habib Malik |
| 3rd Minister from New Zealand in the United States | |
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In office 1952–1958 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Carl Berendsen |
| Succeeded by | Lloyd White (as Chargé d'Affaires) |
| Personal details | |
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Leslie Knox Munro 26 February 1901 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Died | 13 February 1974 (aged 72) Hamilton, New Zealand |
| Spouse(s) | Christine Priestley (m. 1927) Muriel Sturt (m. 1931) |
Sir Leslie Knox Munro KCMG KCVO (26 February 1901 – 13 February 1974) was a New Zealand lawyer, journalist, and politician of international standing.
Munro studied at Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland, where he graduated with a Master of Laws in 1923. He became dean of the law faculty at the University of Auckland in 1938, and taught and administrated at the university in a variety of roles until 1951. Munro was also president of the Auckland District Law Society from 1936 to 1938. Munro gave radio talks on world events for the New Zealand National Broadcasting Service (NBS), and wrote for the New Zealand Herald, where he was editor from 1942 to 1951.
Munro was a founding member of the New Zealand National Party, and held significant executive positions in the party, helping it to victory in the 1949 general election. In 1952 the new Prime Minister, Sidney Holland, appointed Munro the New Zealand ambassador to the United States, and the permanent representative of New Zealand to the United Nations. In that capacity, he lobbied for the New Zealand government to support efforts by the United States to increase its involvement in Indochina in response to the success of the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. While he came to recognize the Viet Cong as an indigenous movement, he still contended that it was supported by North Vietnam and the People's Republic of China as part of a campaign of Communist subversion against South Vietnam. As New Zealand's permanent representative to the UN, he served as president of the Trusteeship Council from 1953 to 1954 and President of the United Nations General Assembly for its twelfth session (1957–1958). He was also three times President of the Security Council, and was serving in that position at the outbreak of Suez Crisis in 1956. At the UN he was an outspoken critic of the Soviet response to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and was appointed the special representative for the 'Hungarian question'.
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