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    Trygve Halvdan Lie (/liː/ LEE, Norwegian: [ˈtrʏ̂gʋə ˈliː] ; 16 July 1896 – 30 December 1968) was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official...
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    Trygve Lie Plaza is a 0.10-acre (0.040 ha) public park in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Located on the west side of First Avenue...
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    people Norwegian language courses The church runs its own art gallery, Trygve Lie Gallery, which has exhibited a number of leading Norwegian and Scandinavian...
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    facility was completed on 9 October 1952. The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Trygve Lie, was the first elected UN secretary-general. Though the UN's primary mandate...
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    Helped Found the UN". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 October 2008. "Trygve Halvdan Lie". United Nations Secretary General. Retrieved 2 December 2023. "Selecting...
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    40.75583; -73.96667 Trygve Lie Gallery is an art gallery located at 317 East 52nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. Trygve Lie Gallery was established...
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  • Trygve is a masculine given name most common in Norway. Trygve is derived from the Old Norse tryggr, meaning "true, trustworthy", cognate with Old English...
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    1945 to February 1946, when the first Secretary-General was appointed, Trygve Lie. Jebb remains the only UN Secretary-General or Acting Secretary-General...
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    Soviet Union favored Lie, but the other permanent members preferred Spaak. After discovering that Adlai Stevenson had picked Trygve Lie and approached the...
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    his father's vacated seat in the Swedish Academy. On 10 November 1952, Trygve Lie announced his resignation as Secretary-General of the United Nations....
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  • French, but it has abstained in other selections. In 1946, France opposed Trygve Lie of Norway since he could not speak French, but it voted for him when the...
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  • - Sir Gladwyn Jebb (acting) 24 October 1945 – 2 February 1946 ? 1 Trygve Halvdan Lie 2 February 1946 – November 1952 In the Cause of Peace (first and only...
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    starting, Kofi Annan shared the story that when the first Secretary-General Trygve Lie left office, he told his successor, Dag Hammarskjöld, "You are about to...
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  • 31 August 1940 – 18 April 1946 Preceded by Joseph Avenol Succeeded by Trygve Lie (as Secretary-General of the United Nations) Deputy Secretary-General...
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    Maria Sandvik raised the question of whether Norwegian Secretary-General Trygve Lie and head architect Arnstein Arneberg pressured Krohg to paint the artwork...
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    first president of the General Assembly in a 28–23 vote, prevailing over Trygve Lie (who went on to be the first Secretary General of the UN). The second...
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    the Soviet Union voting in favor and Nationalist China voting against. Trygve Lie's reappointment was then rejected by a vote of 9-1-1, with the Soviet Union...
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    (Ireland) United Nations (since 1945) Gladwyn Jebb1 (United Kingdom) Trygve Lie (Norway) Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden) U Thant (Burma) Kurt Waldheim (Austria)...
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    Minister of Trade Alfred Madsen, Minister of Social Affairs Kornelius Bergsvik, Minister of Education Nils Hjelmtveit and Minister of Justice Trygve Lie...
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  • Pahlavi Gladwyn Jebb 1 Nasrollah Entezam 1947–1950 Trygve Lie 2 Ali Gholi Ardalan 1950–1955 Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjöld 3 Djalal Abdoh 1955–1959 Dag Hammarskjöld...
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    the third Secretary General, U Thant, and even to the first, Norway's Trygve Lie, but chairman Jahn more or less vetoed this. McCann, Eamonn (23 January...
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    (Ireland) United Nations (since 1945) Gladwyn Jebb1 (United Kingdom) Trygve Lie (Norway) Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden) U Thant (Burma) Kurt Waldheim (Austria)...
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    referring the Palestine problem to the United Nations, the Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, ordered the establishment of a five-member team to study the Palestine...
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    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...
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  • Soviet Socialist Republic to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Trygve Lie), United Nations Francie H., Khouri F. (4 February 1946). "Letter to the...
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    (Ireland) United Nations (since 1945) Gladwyn Jebb1 (United Kingdom) Trygve Lie (Norway) Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden) U Thant (Burma) Kurt Waldheim (Austria)...
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    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...
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    (Ireland) United Nations (since 1945) Gladwyn Jebb1 (United Kingdom) Trygve Lie (Norway) Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden) U Thant (Burma) Kurt Waldheim (Austria)...
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  • the Swedish border. He is a relative of former UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie. Lie was a fur importer by profession and on a 1948 business trip to New...
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    (Ireland) United Nations (since 1945) Gladwyn Jebb1 (United Kingdom) Trygve Lie (Norway) Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden) U Thant (Burma) Kurt Waldheim (Austria)...
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