My Mother — Page 105
Fulfilment of Dream (B) 105 both of us should have been elected, but a procedural difficulty was revealed. In the Security Council not five but six candidates had obtained a majority, which necessitated that the ballot in the Security Council should be repeated. In the second ballot also six candidates obtained a majority, but my votes rose to seven and Mr. Ammoun’s votes fell to six. In the third ballot five candidates obtained a majority, but of them only four had secured a major- ity in the Assembly. These four were declared elected. I was one of them. Mr. Ammoun had a majority in the Assembly but had secured only five votes in the Security Council. The African can- didate had a majority in the Security Council, but had failed to obtain a majority in the Assem bly. Thus four vacancies were filled and the fifth had to be balloted for. In the ballot for the fifth vacancy, the African candidate secured a majority in both Chambers and was declared elected. Dr. V. A. Hamdani, my deputy, was very excited and wanted to know how had it come about that Mr. Ammoun who had greater support in both Chambers than I, had failed to be elected and I was elected. I told him I would explain the procedure to him when we should get back to our office, but that behind it all was Allah’s grace, praise be to Him. I joined the Court for my full term of nine years on February 6, 1964, my seventy-first birthday. I had lost my original senior- ity on the Court, and was now junior to eleven of my colleagues, senior only to three who were elected along with me but were younger than me. I was invited by the Governor of the Central Bank of New Zealand to address a seminar of Bankers on a non-technical topic