 In this paper he wrote, From 1975 to 1988, Childers was based in New York as Director of Information for UNDP.By his retirement in 1989 as Senior Advisor to the UN Director General for Development and International Economic Co-operation, after 22 years of service; Childers had worked with most of the organisations of the UN system, at all levels and in all regions.After his retirement, Erskine Childers continued to strive relentlessly for the ideals for which he had worked so hard.