Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace was not to be made at a party. This week they came back to the Council forge to hammer out understanding. Vishinsky called Bevin's reference to Communist propaganda "a cold breath of the unhappy past." Bevin used the word "lie." Finally Russia offered to drop her demand for Council action if Britain would withdraw her troops from Greece as soon as possible...
Last November pretty, blonde Guri Lie showed her father a report in a Norwegian newspaper that he might become secretary of UNO. Big, bluff Trygve Lie (pronounced TRIG-va Lee) boomed: "What is this? Why do they suggest me?" Trygve Lie knew that they would not pick him for his suavity (nil), for his international experience (limited), or for his brain (good, but not dazzling). Last week UNO, a more rugged organization than anyone expected, picked rugged Trygve Lie for character...
...diplomat appraised Lie as "a man with guts; no political or other culture; not the ideal man; but the best available, since it finally had to be a European." Old-style diplomats found him uncouth but impressive, "a rough diamond." The difference between Lie and smooth, aristocratic Sir Eric Drummond, first Secretary General of the League of Nations, might mark the difference between UNO and the League...
...Trygve Lie was the son of a plain carpenter of Grünerlökken, an Oslo workers' suburb. He became a union lawyer, for over 20 years held his own in the rough & tumble of Norway's Labor politics. When the Germans invaded Norway, Lie, as Minister of Supply and Shipping, ordered the merchant marine into Allied ports, then fled with the Norwegian Government on a British battleship. Later his buxom wife Hjördis and his three daughters joined him in London, where he embarked on a new career-diplomacy...
...impressed the British, though they think he talks too much when indulging his fondness for good company and good wine. At the San Francisco conference Lie talked himself out of voice, whispered on in four languages (Norwegian, English, German, a little Russian...