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Sir Robert Gillman Allen Jackson, (8 November 1911 – 12 January 1991) was an Australian naval officer, public servant and United Nations administrator who specialised in technical and logistical assistance to the developing world. Early life Jackson was born Wilbur Kenneth Jackson in Melbourne, Victoria, on 8 November 1911. He was educated at Cheltenham High School and Mentone Grammar School, which his father Archibald Jackson had helped found, but his father's death meant he did not go to university and started his career in the Royal Australian Navy at 18. Career Jackson was seconded to the Royal Navy in 1938 and proved his ability in his plans for defending Malta during the Second World War, for which he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 1941, he was appointed principal adviser to Oliver Lyttleton, War Cabinet minister in Cairo, and his work with the Middle East Supply Centre encouraging local food production across many countries fostered his diplomatic and administrative skills. After the war, Jackson was responsible for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) projects in Europe, parts of Africa and the Far East, "the biggest UN relief operation ever". Next he was assistant to Trygve Lie, first secretary-general of the UN, with whom he had an awkward working relationship, and then returned to the United Kingdom to work at the Treasury before moving to the Australian Ministry of National Development.

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“The office of the lawyer, however poorly filled, is too delicate, personal and confidential to be occupied by a corporation.”
— "Functions of the Trust Company in the Field of Law", 52 New York State Bar Association Report 142 (1929)
“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.”
— P. 964
“The Court's reasoning adds up to this: The Commission must be sustained because of its accumulated experience in solving a problem with which it had never before been confronted! I give up. Now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said, 'The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.'”
— SEC v. Chenery Corporation, 332 U.S. 194, 213 (1947) (dissenting)
“It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.”
— Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp., 341 U.S. 384, 396 (1951)
“But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.”
— Wells v. Simonds Abrasive Co., 345 U.S. 514, 525 (1953)
“If we concede to the State power and wisdom to single out "duly constituted religious" bodies as exclusive alternatives for compulsory secular instruction, it would be logical to also uphold the power and wisdom to choose the true faith among those "duly constituted." We start down a rough road when we begin to mix compulsory public education with compulsory godliness.”
— 343 U.S. 325

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Notable quotes

“The office of the lawyer, however poorly filled, is too delicate, personal and confidential to be occupied by a corporation.”
— "Functions of the Trust Company in the Field of Law", 52 New York State Bar Association Report 142 (1929)
“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.”
— P. 964
“The Court's reasoning adds up to this: The Commission must be sustained because of its accumulated experience in solving a problem with which it had never before been confronted! I give up. Now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said, 'The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.'”
— SEC v. Chenery Corporation, 332 U.S. 194, 213 (1947) (dissenting)
“It is only the words of the bill that have presidential approval, where that approval is given. It is not to be supposed that in signing a bill the President endorses the whole Congressional Record.”
— Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp., 341 U.S. 384, 396 (1951)
“But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.”
— Wells v. Simonds Abrasive Co., 345 U.S. 514, 525 (1953)
“If we concede to the State power and wisdom to single out "duly constituted religious" bodies as exclusive alternatives for compulsory secular instruction, it would be logical to also uphold the power and wisdom to choose the true faith among those "duly constituted." We start down a rough road when we begin to mix compulsory public education with compulsory godliness.”
— 343 U.S. 325

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Sir Robert Gillman Allen Jackson, (8 November 1911 – 12 January 1991) was an Australian naval officer, public servant and United Nations administrator who specialised in technical and logistical assistance to the developing world.

Overview

Sir Robert Gillman Allen Jackson, (8 November 1911 – 12 January 1991) was an Australian naval officer, public servant and United Nations administrator who specialised in technical and logistical assistance to the developing world. Early life Jackson was born Wilbur Kenneth Jackson in Melbourne, Victoria, on 8 November 1911. He was educated at Cheltenham High School and Mentone Grammar School, which his father Archibald Jackson had helped found, but his father's death meant he did not go to university and started his career in the Royal Australian Navy at 18. Career Jackson was seconded to the Royal Navy in 1938 and proved his ability in his plans for defending Malta during the Second World War, for which he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 1941, he was appointed principal adviser to Oliver Lyttleton, War Cabinet minister in Cairo, and his work with the Middle East Supply Centre encouraging local food production across many countries fostered his diplomatic and administrative skills. After the war, Jackson was responsible for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) projects in Europe, parts of Africa and the Far East, "the biggest UN relief operation ever". Next he was assistant to Trygve Lie, first secretary-general of the UN, with whom he had an awkward working relationship, and then returned to the United Kingdom to work at the Treasury before moving to the Australian Ministry of National Development.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Robert Jackson: British politician (born 1946) · Australian general · English educational researcher, jazz musician and poet · coroner

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