Harald Edelstam
"Harald Edelstam was a Swedish ambassador to Chile during the coup. He was known for various acts of bravery. And one night, when the Mexican Embassy was being fired upon by oncoming tanks and the Mexicans were firing out of their windows with their rather useless rifles, Harald Edelstam took the Swedish flag in his hand and walked in front of the tanks and between the bullets and got the Mexicans out of the Mexican Embassy, took them to the Swedish Embassy and eventually got them out of the country.
When I asked him, through very teary eyes, what made him do that, he said very simply, "I cannot tolerate injustice." I'd like to think that none of us, if we see that injustice clearly, can tolerate it. I'd like to think that all of us have compassion and have caring. I would like to see that enrich all of our lives and I welcome you to join. Many of our activities are surely any activity that you see as needed and I thank you very, very much for being here today."
From
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive ... peech.html
http://www.blackpimpernel.com/edelstam.html
From the movie about him, a longer summary of who he was.
http://www.eurolatina.com/
Another summary on the movie...
The Wikipedia site is a little too thin to cover up all the things that is true about him...
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