Word: adrianus
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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From his huge, simply furnished office in the Sperry building, Lie runs the Secretariat smoothly with the aid of eight Assistant Secretaries-General. In charge of Conference & General Services, a catch-all for every conceivable service from interpreting to pencil-sharpening, is Adrianus Pelt, a mild-mannered Dutch veteran of the League of Nations. The other day Lie paid him a chuckled compliment: "There are no interpreters left in the world-Pelt has them...