Donald Bell Sole

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Donald Bell Sole (born December 13, 1917 in Grahamstown , † May 30, 2011 in Cape Town ) was a South African diplomat .

Life

Donald Bell Sole studied at Kingswood College and Rhodes University . He entered the foreign service in 1937. During the Second World War he was accredited in London . In 1944 he arranged a meeting between Jan Christiaan Smuts and Niels Bohr .

From 1955 to 1957 he was the permanent representative (inter alia) of the South African government at the UN headquarters . In 1956 he was co-author of the founding act of the International Atomic Energy Organization . From 1957 to 1961 he was the envoy of South Africa in Vienna and representative of the South African government at the International Atomic Energy Agency.

From 1961 to 1970 he held a managerial position in Pretoria . He was commissioned by Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd to develop a strategy for the connection of the High Commission Territories , i.e. for today's states of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.

On April 4, 1974, Sole reported in a letter to Pretoria that he had arranged with Georg Leber that Günther Rall would travel to South Africa. On October 1, 1975, Leber, who denied having been informed, released Rall. After the writing of Sole in Stern was reported, Sole was recalled.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roger Pfister: Apartheid South Africa and African States From Pariah to Middle Power . 1962, p. 154, FN41
  2. ↑ ru.ac.za ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ru.ac.za
  3. ↑ The Leber case: four dispatches, one denial . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1975 ( online ).
predecessor Office successor
South African ambassador in Vienna from
1957 to 1961 		PH Meyer
Willem Rudolph Retief
Johann Kunz Uys South African Ambassador in Bonn
October 19, 1970 to October 20, 1975 		Willem Rudolph Retief
Botha of Spades South African Ambassador to Washington
May 11, 1977 to June 4, 1982 		Bernardus Gerhardus Fourie
personal data
SURNAME Sole, Donald Bell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Grahamstown
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2011
Place of death Cape Town