A Finnish diplomat said his Jewish background helped prevent him from being chosen as U.N. secretary-general in 1972. Max Jakobson, who was his country’s representative to the United Nations from 1965 to 1972, made the comments in the Finnish Jewish newspaper HaKehila.
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