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- Gerald_Hensley abstract "Gerald Hensley CNZM, (born Christchurch 4 December 1935), is a former New Zealand diplomat and public servant.He was educated at St Bede's College, Christchurch and Canterbury University where he took an MA with first class honours in History.He joined the Department of External Affairs (now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade) in 1958 and served in Samoa, at the New Zealand Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, and in 1965 was appointed Special Assistant to the Commonwealth Secretary-General when the Commonwealth Secretariat was established in London. He then served as Counsellor at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington. While in Washington, in April 1973, the Black September group painted slogans on the wall of his house and fired several shots through the windows. This was thought to have been the first Islamist-based terrorist attack in the United States. From 1976 until 1980 he was New Zealand’s High Commissioner in Singapore. He recalled one incident of diplomatic immunity involving the Burmese Ambassador to Sri Lanka where he was also accredited and was Vice-Dean of the diplomats. In 1980 he returned to Wellington to become Head of the Prime Minister’s Department, where he served under both Robert Muldoon and David Lange's administrations.From 1987 - 1989 he was Co-ordinator of Domestic and External Security. He was then invited to become a Fellow at the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University. While there he lectured on events in New Zealand’s recent historyIn 1991 he became Secretary of Defence and served in that role until September 1999 when he retired and was honoured with the CNZM. In 2000 he chaired the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group which advised the Papua New Guinea Government on the reconstruction of its armed forces.From 2001 until 2007 he was President of the Asthma Foundation.He has published numerous articles on Asian and Pacific Affairs, most recently "Palm and Pine" a history of New Zealand’s relations with Singapore, in "New Zealand and South East Asia." A memoir about his time in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Department. "Final Approaches" was published by the Auckland University Press in 2006. Three years later his book "Beyond the Battlefield" on New Zealand and it's allies in World War II was published by Penguin and was a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards.In May 2013, "Friendly Fire: Nuclear Politics and the Collapse of ANZUS, 1984-1987", was published by the Auckland University Press. "Friendly Fire" examines how New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy damaged ANZUS ties with the United States during the 1980s. This book uses recently declassified government documents from archives in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.Gerald Hensley lives on a vineyard in Martinborough, New Zealand. His wife Juliet died in May 2013.".
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