Career
Nolde influenced human rights language in the United Nations Charter and wrote the Universal Declaration on Human Rights"s freedom of religion section. Nolde lived in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania a Philadelphia suburb, and died in 1972. After the war, a new unit of the World Council, the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), picked up the baton.
Directed by Nolde it pushed for creation of a commission on human rights, for drafting a declaration of human rights, and, within this, for the protection of religious liberty in the broadest possible terms."
He "became the leading ecumenical diplomat, and most well-known nongovernmental organization representative, lobbying for ecumenical goals at the United Nations" with an "ability to master names and details, persuade diplomats and resistant United States. State Department officials, proactively write drafts of documents and line up support, and tenaciously advocate nonstop on behalf of the ecumenical agenda." In nearly every case Nolde was successful.