11.02.2001 || 15h20

November

So, in November 1956, Canadian Ambassador to the UN Lester B Pearson made a radical suggestion to the UN General Assembly. On 2 November, the UN had passed a ceasefire resolution to put an end to the deepening conflict over the Suez Canal, but no-one could figure out how to make it a reality. Pearson's suggestion was to create a body of soldiers with only defensive weapons under the flag of the UN, and place them between opposing sides so that neither side could strike at the other without first hitting UN troops.

The UN made this suggestion a legal reality on the 7 November, and the first UN Peacekeeping corps was born, at one point comprising 6000 soldiers from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, India, Indonesia, Norway, Sweden, and Yugoslavia.

Lester B Pearson went on to become Prime Minister of Canada and receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in creating the UNEF. He was also watched carefully for years by the CIA as a suspected Communist, though they somehow thought his first name was 'Mike...'



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