\"High Commissioner to Australia\" Carl Berendsen Signed 2.25X4 Card For Sale

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\"High Commissioner to Australia\" Carl Berendsen Signed 2.25X4 Card:
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Up for sale the "High Commissioner to Australia" from New Zealand Carl Berendsen Hand Signed 2.25X4

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Sir

Carl August Berendsen KCMG (16 August 1890 – 12 September 1973) was a New Zealand

civil servant and diplomat. After being in the Education and Labour Departments

he joined the Prime Minister's Department in 1926, becoming its head in 1935.

He was the creator of the Department of External Affairs,

and collaborated with Michael Joseph Savage and Peter Fraser. He was

Secretary for External Affairs 1928–32, Head of the Prime Minister's Department

1932–43, and Secretary of the War Cabinet 1939–43. He attended all Imperial

Conferences 1926–43, and assemblies of the League of Nations and later the

United Nations. Berendsen served as the country's first High

Commissioner to Australia, from 1943 until 1944; this was to improve

relations with Australia (John Curtin) and for health reasons because of

Fraser's notoriously disorganised work habits. He was then transferred to Washington,

D.C., where he served as Minister to

the United States between 1944 and 1952. In late 1967 he was

appointed as member of the team headed by UN envoy Gunnar

Jarring to establish peace in the Middle East following the Six-Day War.

He was born in Sydney, Australia, and educated (LLM) at Victoria University College.

Berendsen served with New Zealand forces in Samoa in World War I, and from

1917-19 after being called up in Trentham Camp and Sling Camp, England; then in

the High Commission in London for the 1919 election and licensing polls. In

1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[2] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St

Michael and St George in the 1946 New Year Honours. Berendsen married Nellie Ellis Brown at St John's Church,

Wellington on 15 December 1917. They had two sons. He was a New Zealand cricketer who

played four first-class matches for Wellington, and also played rugby.

"High Commissioner to Australia" Carl Berendsen Signed 2.25X4 Card

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