The Last Secretary General. Sean Lester and the League of Nations. Dublin: Townhouse, 1999. A fine bright copy in pictorial dust jacket.

Based on Sean Lester’s diaries, telling for the first time the story of a unique Irishman, who came to hold the highest office in the League of Nations.

Douglas Gageby was one of the pre-eminent Irish newspaper editors of his generation & was editor of the ‘Irish Times’ from 1963 to 1986.