Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...front of strangers these eight and the rest of his staff refer to Lie by a code name: Rodney...
Forebodings. In his Forest Hills house and in his Lake Success office, Lie treasures a secret gadget: a loudspeaker connected with the U.N. public-address system which permits him to follow the debate in any U.N. committee room. Frequently, when he hears something he dislikes, Lie picks up the phone and passes a tip to an aide on the scene...
...such quiet intervention, Lie has made the job of U.N. Secretary-General more influential than many U.N. delegates expected. He intervened (rather clumsily) in the Iran issue last spring and bluntly stated his anti-Franco views on Spain at the present Assembly's opening. He managed to get the Council's rules of procedure revised so as to give the Secretary-General the right to "make either oral or written statements : . . concerning any question under consideration. . . ." Last week, in a speech before Committee No. 5 in defense of U.N.'s proposed budget, Lie, on grounds of international...
...good. But what of the larger issues? Lie says: "I like to meet difficulties and see them settled-in the best way. I don't like difficulties that remain unsettled." Unhappily, the major issues plaguing U.N. are not susceptible of quick settlement. Lie's pragmatism serves U.N. well when, like his mother, he is merely caring for the daily needs of his cosmopolitan guests. But the world's governments and peoples will not get from Trygve Lie the vision and leadership necessary to transform U.N. from a mere Council of Ambassadors, waiting docilely for instructions from their...