RARE "Tariffs and Trade" Eric White Signed 3X5 Card COA For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Tariffs and Trade" Eric White Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This offering also includes a RARE 3X3 B&W Photo. 

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 Sir Eric Wyndham White KCMG (1913–1980)

was He was founder and first executive secretary of the General

Agreement on Tariffs and Trade between 1948 and 1965. He was

the first director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from 1965

to 1968. Born on 26 January 1913, White was educated at the Westminster City School and

the London School of Economics.

He graduated as a LLB with first class

honours and in 1938 was called to the bar by the Middle Temple. He was an assistant lecturer at the LSE until

the Second World War started when he moved to the Ministry of Economic Warfare.[1] In 1942 he became the First Secretary at the

British Embassy in Washington. In 1945 he became Special Assistant to the

European Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. He

became involved in the forming of a secretariat for a new international trade

organisation, the General

Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1948 and became the

first Director-General. White died aged 67 on 27 January 1980 in

France after suffering a heart attack while swimming.