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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

Press Release SG/SM/1050 30

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 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 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 ''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- 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 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. nel, who were Americans: He Mr. Lie ' journeyed ' to San 1951 e,.,was in ..a. very reals senSe to tl las given the herculean task |ie man.who had more to. do 'Not Beyond Repair' permitted agents of the; Feder- Francisco in 1945 for the work al Bureau of Investigation to conference that wjote.the, Unit- Rive Ijutting - into-.ppgration- the nan any -other-in 'building up ."I, saw the -dangers more W .world organization, of tie structure-of the United Na- cleaVly, but I saw;/ also, on the question Suspects in the Unit- ed Nations' Charter. -And -When other side, much evidence that ed Nations headquarters, and the first General ..Assembly cqn- recti the* situation'TvasSn'otr^beyohd .disqharge.d,.,a,.numbei; .pf ..staff vened in : in January. members regarded by 'the Unit- 1946f fie" was Tiorhih'ated^f or its ifter several years in terrip'orary ion 'has since assumed: repair, that the w'artime,coop* 1 Lie's ; eration of the .great powers ed States as "subversive." presidency, by the luarters, of bmi'dmg-; the New •"Trygve Lie responded to the with American backing. • Paul-Seer fork headquarters and of in- risis" and strains, in. .the early might yet be revived through Dismissals Invalidated Oi 1 Henri Spaak- of Belgium, then stalling .the organization in it. ears'of the organization .'With the United Nations,- at least He' argued that there was a New nfailing.'-.1, courage, and • con- in the most ' essential things; Foreign Minister, was elected, 'Infinitely Difficult Duty' special obligation to any host however. agre tancy, .he '. rendered great and I hoped that I .might as- country where United Nations mg ; "The. execution;df these high- ervice ; to , all men,.- and the sist in the process." In .the jockeying that fol- 1 employes worked. However, in lowed for the secretary gener- quai y complex administrative tasks 'orld, will miss him." For sdme of the difficulties 1953, the United Nations Ad- will •an parallel with the' infinitely faced ' by the United' Nations alship, the United States and J..R. Wiggins, chief• 'United ministrative Tribunal invalidat- Britain favored Lester. B. Pear- RE lifficult duty of seeing the tates ..representative at the after 1947' and for the cold ed a dozen • of his dismissals sion Jnited Nations through its first, war spirit in which it was son of Canada and the Soviet Jnited Nations, said of..Mr. Lie: under this program. Union backed Stanoje Simic of .ie i md halting, .steps toward mak- "During his. .seven -years in obliged to operate, Mr. Lie As a global diplomat Trygve n tr ng a reality of the purposes ffice the cold war waged at tended to ' blame Winston Yugoslavia. Lie (pronounced TRIG-va Lee), In the apparent stalemate, seve md principles of the Charter. s- worst; yet the' framework Churchill. Mr. Churchill had de- was engagingly informal. Stand- "Trygve Lie's tenure of office Mr. Lie, whose devotion to the f peace did not collapse. • For ivered his Iron Curtain speech ing 6 feet 1 inches tall and United Nations was abundant vas beset by many crises and is - important part in these at Westminster College in Ful- weighing 240 pounds, he almost year vas afflicted by the increasing even then and whose capabili- chieyements; for-.his le'ader- ton, Mo., on March 5, 1947, always wore a double-breasted ties as a conciliator were evi- abou •igors of the cold" war: Despite np in building an independent and of it Mr. Lie wrote: Drue serge suit with four-but- rore he increasing problems of nternational. Secretariat; and dent, emerged as the compro- "Mr. Churchill's address was ton sleeves; which was often mise choice. He was formally and hose years — Palestine, Berlin, or the courage that helped to the subject of much contro- rumpled. He was fond .of good chro Cashmir and Korea, to name recommended for the post by make the seemingly powerless versy and a.great deal of crit- Food and excellent, wines and the Security Council and elect- 'On. mly four — Trygve Lie con- ffice of Secretary General a cism, especially among Euro- chain-smoked Turkish cigar- celet .mued as he started out, a ivotal office in world affairs, ed by the General Assembly. pean liberals and Social Demo- ettes. He was given a salary of $20,- In ighter for peace, a defender umanity owes lasting thanks crats and the strongest sup- In his earlier days at the )f the Charter and a tireless oTr.ygveLie." 000 a year, plus $20,000 for ex- JtOVf porters of the United Nations United Nations, he talked with penses and a home !n Forest ms, milder of the new world or- Early in his term Mr. Lie almost everywhere. This was almost' anybody who came to ;antzation. ealized that he held an un- Hills, Queens, within walking his Because he flung, down a chal- see him or with those he met distance of the West Side Ten- ie v "Like anyone who - occupies nviable post.. Writing of the enge to Russia at a time when n the delegates' lounge. He •n exposed position of world ear 1947 in his memoirs, "In nis Club, where he was a mem- -harj most people hoped for the suc- iked to relax with members ' nve; mportance, he was frequently he Cause of -Peace," he said: cess of peacetime collaboration of his staff, too, and more than -riticized from many sources, "I ' understood much better' Seating Red ster with the U.S.S.R:" once he took them with him and i .s often for doing too much as han before, the depth and Although Mr. Lie earned the . or doing too little. No one was to a baseball game or played Mr. Lie's post was far more In. anger of the split that had. disapproval of the Soviet Ua- tennis with some of them. powerful than that in the old n Vie NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 7 January 1969

ttyiia.-X.ji^g f _ffi» j,Jt -ia, Pjf>r,gr, Rfmght as''well11 sleep," jihe> once 're marked; ;- ;,,*-, ' ^ •* When repoiters1; awakened ;. .na wc him,.atonight, as, they sometimes proved .unpalatable'iboth to: the had to,' 'he was" momentarily United'-State's- Stid.'tbvthe Na- grumpy '""fBut' _he Was re-, tionalist Chinese' on Taipei. Un- membered "yesterday as a dip- daunted; 'Mr. ' Lie! -toured the great-power, capitals to ; urge a lomat who was affable and can- 1 did; with members of the press, 20-year -.peace program that in- 1 cluded the Chinese Communists one who was quite unstuf fyt 1 : '' Mr 'Lie's rise to world erni- When" , the Korean • conflict started hi -June, 1950,'! Mr. Lie nernce> was a pluck-and-lucfe sfory T,rygve Halvdan Lie was denounced. .North' Korea as an born July 16, 1896, in an Oslo aggressor against . With .the Soviet Union ,boycot- suburb, the son 'of\Martm and 1 Hulda Lie His father, a car- :mg the . Security -Council (and .hus'unable to impose its veto), penter, died when Trygve was : a child, and his mother opened :he Council recommended Jnited Nations resistance. Led a> boaidmg house to support by the-United States, a total of heiselffand to earn money for .6 nations provided combat the boy's education forces, and. Mr. 'Lie was active "Work fo^Labor Party in iroundirig uj> this support. Through the, intercession o As a result,,; whg'ri ' his term some of the boarders, Trygve was to expire in. October, 1950, got a job as an office boy a the Soviet ' Unibn blocked his .' . -v,' T f- i ', , [ u i i .Associate, Associated Presd Press s inister of Norway, signing an agreement in London With the' national Headquarters' o renomihation By the ' Security the. Norwegian Labo, r party in Couiicii;' .But' in 'an unusual erpar,t, on war, measures. Mr. Eden became Earrbf ,Avon, Oslo-, i a post he held througl move, . the General Assembly ^ "*%.; fe"" Norway's Cabin for his purported subservience as Minister of Justice in 193 to the United States. - and .serving to 1939, he too Mr. , Lie did have .• successes over the commerce poitfol during his administration. He ;,..., . , .Th ine«ewYort;Timee New York Timess just before World Wai II I their three daughters in Washington in 1948, Daughters helped in fhe establishment of the retreat'.before the Nazi in independ_ence of ; he i the right, and Mrs. Mette Hoist. Mrs. Lie,died in 1960. vasionMn 1940, he ordered 2 assisted in ending stubborn civil 000 seamen to • stay clear ^ : strife in Greece; and. he played '•that in some respects . he had earlier been, reproached home; ports,. thus saving moi a role in the lifting of the .like a crevasse in a glacie in the United States for ,-urging than 3,5 milKp.n. tons of ship and : in the fcimight, spread .wider be the admission of Communist ping for the-Allied cause. (i;,--tlie bridge1 of soft sur The German invasion dro-v Israeli-Arab armistice in Pales- China .to the world organiza- the: Cabinet into.exile in Lon tine in 1948. '•sn'o'w that was called grea tion., ., -' ,. ' Mr. Lie also set up the United 3f. Unity. .-.-: ; don, :-where Mr. -L'e becam 'b&confident hopes I'ha Lateiv toward .the' close o£ acting Foreign Minister in 194 Nations headquarters after the is service, Mr. Lie was, re-' and/Foreign Minister in .194 London beginnings. First, in the 3d;jiij/earlier months'wit Bronx at Hunter College, and Bother ^statesmen of ,th proved by members of his .staff Business took him to. Washing : as well .as by Western European ton and to Moscow, which h then, in 1946, the site cit Lake left pm(er,..at least, and cer Success, , L. I., and . the New. y^With, ttie.;'great 'masses o and ^Asian delegates' for his had -.visited as Labor- party de handling of "loyalty" investiga- egate in the early stages o York City Building in Flush-' le;;'.everywhere, were ,im tions of United.Nations person- ng Meadow Park. Starting in jMutxby^HO"means lost. the Bolshevik Revolution. nel, who were Americans:- He Mf.' Lie •' journeyed' to Sai [951, he supervised' the move Mot Beyond Repair' permitted agents of the^Feder- Francisco in 1945. for the, worl to the present site, on ,the East 'saw; '.the - dangers .more al Bureau of Investigation to conference-that wrote1 tha Unit River at 41st .Stre'et. ' ; ; ly;. but •.!; saw, (also, on. thf question suspects in the Unit- ed 'Nation^ -Charter. ;A'rid -When Wallace K. Harrison, who di- '. si,de,1';-'rn.'u(:h' evidence' tha id Nations headquarters, and the. first General ^Assembly cor/ •ected the United Nations In- tv.^Li.i.uj.1. •yr..ap-.^. 1HJL vJUCVI^IJl TY™ed in London'l"in January e'rnatibnal team of ,, architects, : rVQARlt*Jtt"&te*&££ft!;2W??2iI^-re<.~y--l a|r^e., i.iea.,guarte r.s .,.Mr,. -,',' that •' the' -Wartime'.; coop' 1 t | ? m '.of • tHe. 'great: powers ed States as "subversive. presidency, by -the 'Soviet Union ,ie's ' "greatest-" achievehi erit ' as t'yet -be; revived. through Dismissals Invalidated with American 'backing. • Paul lecretary 'General. United Rations,:': at leas Henri Spaak- of Belgium, then On one of his last visits to IB most' essential things He' argued that there was a Foreign Minister, was elected New York, Mr. 'Lie said he special obligation to'any host however greed with Mr. Harrison. Look-] I -hoped thai I might as- rminfnr nrlic^-a . TTni^«J XT-*: •_ .. ' a the 'process'."'- . country United Nations In the jockeying that fol ng around the crowded head- 1 ; sdme of the difficulties, employes worked. However, • in lowed for the secretary gener quarters, he remarked: "This I 'by the United Nations 1953, the. United Nations Ad alship, the United States and will be .nay monument." 1947' and for the cold ministrative Tribunal invalidat- Britain favored Lester.B. Pear Retiring with a lifetime pen- ed a dozen-of .his dismissals ion of $10,000 a year, Mr. spirit' in which it under this program. son of Canada and the Soviet 3d-, to 'operate, Mr. Lie Union backed Stanoj'e Siinic o ..ie returned to Norway. There, d to ' blame Winston As a global diplomat Trygve Yugoslavia. n the next five years, he wrote Lie (pronounced TRIG-va Lee), everal books of memoirs: "In ±ill. Mr. Churchill had de- was engagingly informal. Stand- In the 'apparent stalemate d his Iron Curtain speech Mr. Lie, whose devotion to the he Cause of Peace," an ac- ng 6 feet 1 inches tall and United Nations was abundant ount of his United Nai.iw..: sstminste'r College in Ful- weighing 240 pounds, he almost Mo.,.-on . March 5, 1947, even then and whose capabili- ears; "To Live or to Die," always wore a double-breasted ties, as a conciliator were evi- bout his • term, as . Norwegian )f it Mr. Lie wrote: blue serge suit with four-but- :! Churchill's address was dent, emerged as. the compro- oreign Minister; "With Eng- on sleeves-, which was often mise choice. He was formally and in the Front Line," a lubject of much cpntro- umpled. He was fond .of good and a:great deal of crit recommended for the post by ironicle of the war years, and ood and excellent wines and the Security Council and elect- On the Way . Home," which ^especially among Euro hain-smoked Turkish cigar- liberals and! Social Demo- ed by the General Assembly. ilebrated his native land. ttes. He was given a salary of $20 - In 1955 he was appointed arid the strongest sup- In his earlier days at the 's of the United Nations 000 a year, plus $20',000 for ex- overnor of Oslo and Akers-' Jnited Nations, he talked with penses and a home In Forest t everywhere. This was Imost' anybody who. came to us, a position he held until se he flung, down a chal- Hills, Queens, within walking his year. At the same time, ee him or with those he met distance of the West Side Ten- to Russia at a time when n the delegates' lounge. He e was a special Ambassador lis Club, where he was a mem- harged with obtaining foreign people hoped for the suc- ked to relax with members >er. if. peacetime collaboration f his staff, too, and more than vestments. He was also Min- ;he U.S.S.R:" nee he took them with him Seating Red China ter of Industries in 1963-64, lough Mr. Lie earned the nd of Commerce through 1965. o a baseball game or played Mr. .Lie's post was far more In. 1959, he sought in vain, ifoval of the Soviet U,i- ennig with some of them. that in the old ir his backing of United TVTr T IP behalf of the United Nations born July' 16, 1896, in an Oslo With the Soviet Union boycot- suburb, the son of Martin and ting the Security Council (and Hulda Lie. His father, a car thus unable to impose its veto), penter, died when Trygve was the Council recommended a child, and his mother opened United Nations resistance. Led a boarding house to support by the United States, a total of herself and to earn money for 16 nations provided combat the boy's education. forces, and Mr. Lie was active Work for Labor Party in rounding up this support. Through the intercession of As a result, when his term some of the boarders, Trygve was to expire in October, 1950, got a job as an office boy at the Soviet Union blocked his Associated Press the national headquarters of renomination^ by the Security Minister of Norway, signing an agreement in London with the Norwegian Labor party in Council. But in an unusual iterpart, on war measures. Mr. Eden became Earl of Avon. Oslo, a post he held through move, the General Assembly both'his high school and col- extended his term for three lege years. His job drew him years—through 1953. into the Labor party, a left-of- Under increasing pressure— center group, and at the age the Korean war, which grew of 16 he was elected president increasingly less popular, and of the Aker branch of the or- disputes with his staff over ganization. He retained this "loyalty" investigations—Mr. post through his five years as Lie offered his resignation in a law student at Oslo Univer- November, 1952, with a char- sity, where he received a degree acteristic hope that a Secretary in 1919. ' General acceptable to all the great powers might accelerate His talents for politics were immediately recognized, for the a Korean peace and better same year he was named as- serve the cause of world amity. sistant to the party's nationa' 'Vyshinsky Ulcers' secretary and seven years later Mr. Lie departed his post in he became the party's national April, 1953, after Dag Ham- executive secretary. Almost marskjold of Sweden had been concurrently, from 1922 to agreed upon as a compromise 1935, he served as general by the big powers. At the time counsel to the - Norwegian Mr. Lie remarked that he v/as Trades Union Federation; and suffering from "Vyshinsky ul- from 1926 to 1940 he was cers.a " His allusion was to An- member of its national council. drei Vyshinsky, the Soviet For- He was also elected to Parlia- eign Minister, who delighted in ment. taunting and hectoring Mr. Lie Entering '.Norway's Cabinet for his purported subservience as Minister of Justice in 1935 to the United States. and serving to 1939, he took Mr. Lie did have successes over the commerce portfolio during his administration. He just before World War II. In helped in the establishment of of their three daughters in Washington in 1948. Daughters the retreat before the Nazi in- independence of Indonesia; he on the right, and Mrs. Mette Hoist. Mrs. Lie died in 1960. vasion in 1940, he ordered 25,- assisted in ending stubborn civil 000 seamen to stay clear of strife in Greece; and. he played home ports, thus saving more :lt that in some respects it he had earlier been reproached : a role in the' lifting of the r than 3.5 mill qn tons of ship- as like a crevasse in a glacier in the United States for urging Berlin blockade and in the 'hich might spread wider be- ping for the Allied cause. Israeli-Arab armistice in Pales- th„, e. admissio, , n of ,Communis ***i«mvjit. ThAJIVe* Germavjv^i jiicjn invasioinvaoivjlnl U1\JVdroveC eath the bridge of soft sur- China to the world orgamza- the Cabinet into exile in Lon- tine in 1948. ice snow that was called great tion. don, where Mr. L'e became Mr. Lie also set up the United ower unity. Later, toward the close of acting Foreign Minister in 1940 Nations headquarters after the "The confident hopes I had his service, Mr. Lie was re- and Foreign Minister in 1941. London beginnings. First, in the .lared- in earlier months with Bronx at Hunter College, and proved by members of his .staff Business took him to Washing- then, in 1946, the site at Lake lost .other:> statesmen of the as well as by Western European ton and to Moscow, which he nall.er pow-er at least, and cer- and Asian delegates for his had visited as Labor party del- Success, L. L, and the New urily with the; great 'masses of handling of "loyalty" investiga- egate, in the early stages of York City Building in Flush- eople everywhere, were im- tions of United.Nations person- the Bolshevik Revolution. ing Meadow Park. Starting in aired. but by'no means lost. 1951, he supervised the move nel, who were Americans. He Mr. Lie journeyed to San to the present si to, on .the East 'Not Beyond Repair' permitted agents of the, Feder- Francisco in 1945 for the world River at 41st Street. ; "L saw the dangers more al Bureau of Investigation to conference that wrote the.Unit- Wallace K. Harrison, who di- learly, but I'saw also, on the question suspects in the Unit- ed Nations' Charter. And 'when rected the United Nations In- ther side, much evidence that ed Nations headquarters, and the first Gener&l .Assembly, con- ternational team of .architects, 36'"situation was' notv'beyond discharged..a number ..of staff vened in London'; in January, :all.ed.-the . headquarters Mr. spair, that the wartime coop1 members regarded by 'the" Unit- 1946,"he~ was 'nominated "for its Lie's .greatest' achievement as ration of the great powers ed States as "subversive." presidency by the .Soviet Union, Secretary General. light yet be revived through Dismissals Invalidated with American backing. Paul- On one of his last visits to le United Nations, at least Henri Spaak of Belgium, then He argued that there was a Foreign Minister, was elected, New York, Mr. Lie said he i the most ' essential things; special obligation to any host agreed with Mr. Harrison. Look- nd I hoped that I might as- however. ing around the crowded head-! country where United Nations In the jockeying that fol- 1 ist in the process." employes worked. However, in lowed for the secretary gener- quarters, he remarked: "This For some of the difficulties 1953, the United Nations Ad- alship, the United States and will be ray monument." iced'by the United Nations ministrative Tribunal invalidat- Britain favored Lester.B. Pear- Retiring with a lifetime pen- fter 1947 and for the cold ed a dozen of his dismissals son of Canada and the Soviet sion of $10,000 a year, Mr. /ar spirit in which it was under this program. Union backed Stanoje Simic of Lie returned to Norway. There, bliged. to operate, Mr. Lie As a global diplomat Trygve Yugoslavia. in the next five years, he wrote snded to blame Winston Lie (pronounced TRIG-va Lee), In the apparent stalemate, several books of memoirs: "In ;hurchill. Mr. Churchill had de- was engagingly informal. Stand- Mr. Lie, whose devotion to the the Cause of Peace," an ac- .vered his Iron Curtain speech ing 6 feet 1 inches. tall and United Nations was abundant count of his United Nauoi.r t Westminster College in Ful- weighing 240 pounds, he almost even then and whose capabili- years; "To Live or to Die," 3n, Mo., -on March 5, 1947, always wore a double-breasted ties, as a conciliator were evi-about his term as. Norwegian nd of it Mr. Lie wrote: blue serge suit with four-but- dent, emerged as the compro- Foreign Minister; "With Eng- "Mr. Churchill's address was ton sleeves; which was often mise choice. He was form'ally iand in the Front Line," a he subject of much cpntro- rumpled. He was fond of good recommended for the post by chronicle of the war years, and ersy and a.great deal of crit- food and excellent wines and the Security Council and elect- "On the Way Home," which :ism, especially among Eun> chain-smoked Turkish cigar- ed by the General Assembly. :elebrated his native land. •can liberals and' Social Demo- ettes. He was given a salary of $20,- In 1955 he was appointed rats and the strongest sup- In his earlier days at the 000 a year, plus $20,000 for ex- jovernor of Oslo and Akers- icrters of the United Nations United Nations, he talked with penses and a home in Forest lus, a position he held until .Imost everywhere. This was almost' anybody who came to Hills, Queens, within walking :his year. At the same time, iecause he flung down, a chal- see him or with those he met distance of the West Side Ten- le was a special Ambassador enge to Russia at a time when in the delegates' lounge. He nis Club, where he was a mem- charged with obtaining foreign nost'.people hoped for the suc- liked to relax with members ber. "nvestments. He was also Min- ess of peacetime collaboration of his staff, too, and more than Seating Red China ster of Industries in 1963-64, nth the U.S.S.R." once he took them with him and of Commerce through 1965. Although Mr. Lie earned the to a baseball game or played Mr. Lie's post was far more In 1959, he sought in vain, lisapproval of the Soviet U.i- tennis with some of them. powerful than that in the old n behalf of the United Nations, Dn. for his backing of United Mr. Lie worked as intensively . In addition :o solve a border dispute be- •rations intervention in Korea, as he played. But between con-j to being the administrative tween Ethiopia and Italian So- head of 4 000 United Nations mahlaml employes he twas empowered '~~ "liie*-wa' s much honored by the -jChaiter Jo present to seihg the; recipient of 25 doc' the1-Security Council' the Gen. :orateS from universities in the era! i Assembly^ and t to? other United ,States jCanada Ecua United Nations organs any srt doc the^. Dominican) Republic uations that in hrs view threat 3elgmm and Britain He also. enetj Mnternational^ipeace a^nd lelcT tKeftjrand Cross of the security - ' ' *• i. Order,of Bt Olaf and^the Dan In< Mr Lie's' first five year nerbroVorder of Denmark term he intervened vainly with . ffitr^Lie married Hjordis Jor j the Security Council, in a dis 5 4 gensen in US21'iHejr death in pu,te over the presence of So 1960iHwasi a (se\j6reffrloss, for viet 'troops in,A.zerbarjan over tthe years Mr Lie had on the Soviet IramanJ1border He ! A come to''rely on her judgment appealed to thejjheads of Brg inJ making major decisions and J/pur Governments^-the 'United in ^appointing persons to ira States, France^Bntam ^and^tlie jortant positions , t SovietiUmoh—jto meetrand set ^Mr / Lie ''is' survived by three tie tha^Bedm blockade j crisis daughters Mrs Sfssel Bratz of 1948 He1., also ! repeatedly Norway Mrs Gun Zeckendorf urged universal membership m of New Yor~ 'k and Mrs Mette the. Umted^Nations, and he was Hoist of Scharsdale N Y t and i™ mM-.r,,l H,, T,5-nnV rlol^l^Vo - U, in IT nm^l^V, 1J <,„ : HEW YORK TIMES, liSEa&asfc** ''*** **"""

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Unllert Nationi Trygve Lie, as United Nations Secretary General, in 1949

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 30 — Plans for a funeral had not Trygve Lie, the first Secretary been completed tonight. General of the United Nations, died today, apparently of a Seven Stormy Years heart attack, in Gcilo, a winter In the seven years and two resort northwest of here. Mr. months that Trygve Lie served Lie, who held the key world or- as the first Secretary Genera! iganization post from 1946 to of the United Nations he scarce- 1953, was 72 years old. ly passed an unbuffeted day. . • ' . . , Associated Press He was lunching with a Supported as a compromise Mrs. Clifton Daniel, daughter of /owner President Truman; daughter, Mrs. Sissel Bratz, Vice President and Mrs. Humphrey, Dr, Ralph J. Bunche, U.N. Under Secretary, at funeral of Trygve -Lie in Oslo. when he collapsed.

Special to The New York Times OSLO, Norway; Jan. 6— Mr. Lie had .served in the Trygve Lie, the first Secre- United - Nation's post from tary General of the United 1946 to 1953,, during Mr. Truman's Presidency. He was • Nations, was eulogized at a 72 years old at his death last funeral service in the Oslo Monday. Trinity Church today as "the Special' police precautions first great international activ- were taken at the funeral ist and a.crusdaer for peace ' following an incident last and freedom." .' : night, when youths stoned This tribute" was made by the United States Embassy Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Under in protest against Mr. Hum- Secretary of the 'United Na- phrey's presence. tions, who placed a wreath . The Vice President and his beside Mr. Lie's coffin. wife will visit relatives in .-.The funeral was attended southern Norway tomorrow by King Olay V of Norway • and return to New York on and 400 statesmen, diplomats Wednesday. and 1 members of the Norwe- The Soviet Union was not gian Government arid friends. represented at the funeral The1 United States was rep- service. Mr. Lie resigned as resented by Vice* President Secretary General in a dis- Humphrey, Ambassador Mar- pute with the'Soviet''Union garet Joy Tibbetts and Mrs over: the Korean war. Clifton Daniel, daughter of Mr., Lie's body was cre- former President*,' ,Harry S mated at a family service , later, ' ^ ^v fj^ ,VJS ._ c j ~*£-9 > , ** M NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, Jl December 1968

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