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Trygve Halvdan Lie (/ l iː / LEE, Norwegian: [ˈtrʏ̂gʋə ˈliː] ⓘ; 16 July 1896 – 30 December 1968) was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945.
After discovering that Adlai Stevenson had picked Trygve Lie and approached the Norwegian and Soviet ambassadors to gain their support, U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes decided that the United States had to vote for Lie to avoid "break[ing] faith with two governments." Although Byrne thought that Lie's candidacy was hopeless, several ...
Trygve Lie's reappointment was then rejected by a vote of 9-1-1, with the Soviet Union vetoing and Nationalist China abstaining. [12] [3] The General Assembly was called back into session for 19 October 1950. [13] Attempting to avoid the impending vote, Soviet ambassador Yakov Malik called upon U.S. ambassador Warren Austin on 17 October 1950 ...
A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1953 after Trygve Lie announced his intention of resigning. Lie had been at odds with the Soviet Union since the outbreak of the Korean War, and the negotiations for an armistice offered the opportunity for a new Secretary-General to turn the page.
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (English: / ˈ h æ m ər ʃ ʊ l d / HAM-ər-shuuld, [1] Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld] ⓘ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.
The permanent members then agreed on Trygve Lie of Norway, who had lost the election for president of the General Assembly to Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium. [23] On 1 February 1946, as a result of a compromise between the major powers, Lie was elected as the first secretary-general of the United Nations by a unanimous vote in the Security Council ...
Feller (center) Abraham Howard Feller (1904 – November 13, 1952) was the chief legal counsel under Trygve Lie of the United Nations and a friend of Alger Hiss who committed suicide during investigations into communist subversion at the UN by the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS).
Trygve Halvdan Lie: 2 February 1946 – November 1952: In the Cause of Peace (first and only publication, 1954) 2: Dag Hammarskjöld: 10 April 1953 – 18 September 1961: Vägmärken (Markings) ISBN 0-394-43532-X: 3: U Thant: 3 November 1961 – 31 December 1971: View from the UN ISBN 0-385-11541-5: 4: Kurt Waldheim: 1 January 1972 – 31 ...