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The 1950s

Early Cold War

The formative decade of the United Nations, shaped by the Korean War and the dawn of the atomic age. Dag Hammarskjold became the iconic Secretary-General, while Cold War rhetoric dominated the Assembly.

Most Cited Figures (1950-1959)

Dag Hammarskjold emerged as a towering figure of international diplomacy. Stalin's shadow loomed large over Cold War debates, while post-war statesmen like Churchill and Roosevelt were invoked as architects of peace. The death of Gandhi in 1948 made him a martyr for non-violence.

RankPersonMentionsCategory
#1Dag Hammarskjöld68UN Leader
#2Joseph Stalin55World Leader
#3Winston Churchill42World Leader
#4Jawaharlal Nehru18World Leader
#5Franklin D. Roosevelt18World Leader
#6Gamal Abdel Nasser17World Leader
#7Abraham Lincoln17World Leader
#8Zhou Enlai16World Leader
#9Trygve Lie13UN Leader
#10Simon Bolivar11Historical Figure
#11Nikita Khrushchev10World Leader
#12Kwame Nkrumah10World Leader
#13Plato7Philosopher
#14Karl Marx6Economist
#15Juan Perón5World Leader
#16Napoleon Bonaparte5Historical Figure
#17Haile Selassie4World Leader
#18King Hussein3World Leader
#19Sukarno3World Leader
#20Alexis de Tocqueville3Political Thinker

Notable Quotations

"This world, this theatre of pride and wrong Swarms of sick fools who talk of happiness."
Voltaire•Cited by India (1954)
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