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Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for United Kingdom, between 1971 and 1973 — 9,974 words in all. The longest was 1971, at 3,815.

Also recorded as “Sir Alec DOUGLAS-HOME” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

02,5005,0001971: 3,815 words1972: 3,172 words1973: 2,987 words19711973
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1971 26 not recorded 3,815
1972 27 not recorded 3,172
1973 28 not recorded 2,987

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

detente 8 terrorism 7 peacekeeping 5 refugees 4 apartheid 2 decolonization 1 nuclear weapons 1 rule of law 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 3 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Sir Alec Douglas-Home said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

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