English: Maurice Pate, first UNICEF Executive Director, sits on a park bench surrounded by children, in the capital of Stockholm. Maurice Pate became UNICEF's first Executive Director in 1946, a post he held for 18 years. Asserting that UNICEF would respond to the needs of all children, including those in countries recently defeated in World War II, Mr. Pate established the principle that children's needs were above political considerations. During his tenure, he was the United Nation's most travelled executive, visiting 93 countries to personally evaluate the condition of children. In the 1960s, he again re-defined UNICEF priorities, calling for assessment of the needs of the "whole" child, not only his or her basic health and nutritional needs.