The Independent - London, August 29th, 1996
Erskine Childers succumbed to a heart attack during the 50th anniversary congress of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, of which he was Secretary- General. It is perhaps fitting for so totally dedicated a man that he died giving all of his energy and ingenuity to an international organisation that he was trying desperately to revitalise.
Childers was a most unusual person by any count. His great grandfather, Robert Childers, was a distinguished Victorian oriental scholar. His grandfather, Erskine, wrote the classic international thriller The Riddle of the Sands. He also foug...
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