Word: halvdan
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After six frustrating years of trying to budge the roadblocks to world peace, Norway's Trygve Halvdan Lie resigned this week as Secretary-General of the United Nations. His reason: his fear that he himself has become a roadblock...
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...disruption, as it had been at its first meeting in London, early this year. It now faced the chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
...birch woods of Lapland for questionable security in England, there to "carry on the war" against Hitler in an as yet unannounced manner. "The necessity of war forced the Allies to gather all their forces on other fronts, where all soldiers and all materials are necessary," explained Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht in a broadcast from far northern Tromso...
...mountains, narrowly escaping capture, Norway's remaining gold reserve (much of which had already been exported before the invasion began) .was spirited safely away from Molde in a British warship at about the same time as King Haakon. It went to vaults in Great Britain. Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, in London and Paris last week to take counsel and to call back exhortations to the Norse, announced that Norway had purchased for her stand in the north "huge quantities" of supplies and munitions from the British, enough grain to feed her soldiers for a year. Of Norway...