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Items-In-Public Relations Files - Trygvie Lie UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 168 Date 08/06/2006 Time 11:12:02 AM S-0864-0012-33-00001 Expanded Number S-0864-0012-33-00001 items-in-Public relations files - Trygvie Lie Date Created 01/06/1951 Record Type Archival Item Container s-0864-0012: Public Relations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit 1 \ to ^KS; 20 Jan. 69 St. Bernard School 4 East 98th St. AT 9-2878 9:00 Friday, 24 Jan. 69 Mr. Westgate, Headmaster Mrs. Zeckendorff has indicated that it would be greatly appreciated if the Secretary-General could say a few words in tribute to Mr. Lie. Mr. Westgate intends to start the ceremony by having the pupils read from the Bible and then sing a hymn. He will then introduce the Secretary- General who will say a few words (length to be determined by the SG-). No one else will speak. After the SG has spoken the ceremony will end by Jfl^Si the pupils signing ajf hymn. It is anticipated that the ceremony will take about 30 minutes or so. About 310 pupils, 6 to 14 yrs old, 40 teachers, and maybe 40 to 60 adults will attend. Mrs. Zeckendorff has 2 boys attending the school <ry\ Lucien UNITED NATIONS Press Services Office of Public Information United Nations, N.Y. (FOR USE OF INFORMATION MEDIA. — NOT AN OFFICIAL RECORD) Press Release SG/SM/1050 30 December 1968 MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL TO DAUGHTER OF TRYGVE LIE Following is the text of a message of condolence sent today by the Secretary-General, U Thant, to Mrs, Guri Lie Zeckendorff, concerning the death of her father, Trygve Lie, the first Secretary-General of the United Nations: The sudden death of your father has come as a shock to all of us here in the United Nations who knew him and who are daily aware of his great contribution to the Organization, He was a champion of peace and a tireless worker for a more just and better world. As the first Secretary- General of the United Nations he was the master builder of the Organisation, as well as its chief executive in the extraordinary series of crises of its early years* He brought to what he once called "the most impossible job in the world" the courage and conviction which had sustained him and his fellow countrymen through the darkest days of the war. Even if the job was impossible he managed to do it. I send to you, your sisters and all the family my deep sympathy in your great loss. * #** NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 7 January 196$ fererices,';he .could/sleep sound . on, ly in his office chair. And when Nal he. retired at night for his cus- \ 'ed States and the. Soviet".t|n- tomary nine hours of . rest, he .ion.^when the;. Grand, Alliance wal 1 fell asleep instantly. "I have 'of 'WbrioVWaf II'iy/as 'breaking done- all' I can' — ; now- li-might •up,,'and when- the cold', wan was as • well i-slee'p," , he :: once re- ;in its initiaUstages-, Mr..' Lie Jw'as. marked., ; ;. > '. ;, . ' ' JROs hardly ever' in1', the-1 good' graces' 1 '-When- reporters /awakened of thesetsupe.rpowers.ana their hinratnight,, as they sometimes pro allies V.at^the-,', Carrie., time!'. In- Un1i 1 had',' to,"-" he was''" momentarily ^ deed, for. several years, "after grumpy. •."••But ' . he was re- tioi the start pf the Korean war in membered 'yesterday as a dip- dan 1950, which . he backed as..a lomat who was affable and can- gre proper United Nations/response did, with members. of the press, 20-; to 'aggression^ the 'Soviet Unio one who was quite unstuffy-. • Clue >would, 'not ;address, hinv' d ! rectly. ' ' . ;";'.':: • f • . ' ' Mn Lie's rise to world emi- stai And when .jttr.-' Lie resigne nence. was a pluck-and-luck den at the close'of'tjiat'.conflict'i story. 'Trygve .Halvdan Lie was as.E April ,pf 1953-vihe. 'was. pqpula born July' 16, 1896, in an Oslo Wit 1 suburb, the. son of Martin and in very few quarters; inc'ludiii Hulda . Lie. His father, a car- the staff, bl* his^pw.n secretar 1 thu penter, died when Trygve was the a child, and his mother opened Uni i A burly,'rugged,' informal'dip a boarding house" to support loffiat who 'came .to ;tlie '^Unite by herself .and to e_arn, money for 16 Nations with; a-reputation! as' the boy's education! talented Norwegian Cabinet q: for( .ficial, Mr.'Lie'twas passionate] Work for Labor Party in i devoted' to, the1 ;•United'-Nation ; Through the. intercession of as. an: instrument,' if or .'wort some of the ^.boarders, Trygve was peace and'-to-1, the middle" wa the. : J ; got a job as' an office boy at in,^a5mprdmlsmg: ':, the ;',;dispute the national headquarters of rem 'of nations'.'. "-' • ~ ••', i .' f Coi s - tish countert - — the Norwegian Labor party in , In pursuit-,'of.the'se concepts Antbpn^Eaen^his^Bntish counterpart, ori-w^mdasures. Mr. .Eden, became;Eari;of AAvon. ,O?Ip,,a!.po_st-he held, through moi "the top international civil, ser both his high school; 'and col- ext( i vant was' of ten ^accused of lea'n yea 1 lege years. His job drew him ,ing 'too far to. -the.right-,br to into.. the Labor party, a.left-of- far. to the .left.' •'•: J • ' center ' group, and -at the age the , Object of Criticism of 16 he was elected, president incr of the Aker branch of the or- disf '', "I have/ been. 'criticized froh ganization. He retained this "loj all directions," he -once 'ac post through his five years as Lie knowledged. '"As long - as-'thi a law student at Oslo Univer- Nov situation continues, -I feel I am sitys where he received a degree act£ doing an impartial job. I .hav in 1919. ' Gen been, called a reactionary. • His talents for politics were gre< have been labeled, a. Red devil immediately recognized, for the a 1 I/don't care!so long'as the at same, year he was , named .as- ser\ tacks come from all sides." sistant to the party's national In. retrospect, however, Mr secretary and seven years later .ie's administration was es M he became the party's national Apr nit executive secretary. Almost Uhe mar concurrently, from" 1922 to agrc 1935, he served as general by 1 counsel to the - Norwegian Mr. Trades Union Federation; and flag was lowered to 'half-staff suff. from 1926 to 1940 he was a cers Many delegations paid tribute member of its national council. to hirh, but not the Soviet mis He was also elected to Parlia- drei siOn, which:..said- through a ment. eign spokesman that''there would hi taur no statement. Entering 'Norway's Cabine for as Minister of Justice 'in 193! to t The" Security Council, meet and serving to 1939, he too! "j.on the Lebanon-Israel dis M over .the commerce portfolio duri: 1 rose.. last night before ust ' before World War II. • In King the1 debate, ait 9:52 to help Mr.:Lie and his wife with; two of their three daughters in Washington ift 1948. Daughters he retreat .before the Nazi in inde erve-.a moment of "silence in are now,'Mrs.' Gtiri Zeckendorf, on the right, and Mrs. Mette Hoist. Mrs.. Lie died in 1960. rasion in 1940, he ordered 25, nory. of Mr."1 Lie.- Env'alka- assi: )00 seamen fd stay clear o. strif |y Makonnen .of" Ethiopia iomer ports, thus saving more pfjdent .of "the council1' this ibilitieis'.' for peace .and.' 'the felt- that in sortie respects it he had earlier been reproached : a r stringent 'limitations., on' his ban 3.5 mill pn, tons of ship Berl ^''-.h, moved that the silence : was like a crevasse in .a glacier in the United States for urging >ing for the Allied cause. ibserved, •' and -the Sovie a'utKority and' on his" possibili-which-might spread, wider be- the .admission of Communist Israi ies for effective, action." ; neath the bridge of soft sur- The German invasion drov< tine .jation joined in'the-tribute t:China to the world organiza- he 'Cabinet into exile in Lon pcalling Mr.' Lie's term; in 'President Johnson, In San face, snow that was called great n. ' . , - - M Antonio,.; paid the following power unity. don, where Mr. -.Lie became Je, U Thant,. the present ribute:. , . ';. Later, toward .the close o: acting Foreign Minister in I94( Nati le'tary General, said: '• . "The confident hopes Ihac his service, Mr. Lie was. re and Foreign Minister in 1941 ^s' its-first '''.Secretary" Gen- ..'.'All. of > iis ' are:, saddened by shared-in earlier, months'with Bror he-passing, of Trygva Lie. He proved by members of his .staf: Business took him to Washing i Trygve Lie holds a unique mo.st.;otherv statesmen of the as well as by Western European ton and to Moscow, which he then e in the .history of the Unit- ivas more than an outstanding smaller pow.er at least, and cer- and Asian delegates' for his Succ 11 itizen-' and public/ official of had visited as Labor party del Ipations. .After, a' distih- tairily with the/great 'masses of handling of "loyalty" investiga- egatej.in the early stages of Yorl iis country; as. first: Secretary people ' everywhere, were .im- ing hed . career as. • a wartime General, of the..United -Nations, tions of United. Nations person- the Bolshevik Revolution. ,.fer pf ;hTs embattled country; paired but by'nV:means lost.
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