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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Internationalism Lie had known ever since his childhood. He grew up in an exciting era, when the battle for the receivership of the 19th Century had just begun. His mother's boardinghouse in Grorud, near Oslo, was cosmopolitan-Swedish, Finnish, Polish, German, Russian workers paid mother Lie 20? a day for room & board. In the evening, around the table, Trygve heard them talk of the Russo-Japanese War, of the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, of Norway's breakaway from Sweden, of syndicalism and the brotherhood of all workers. In those days Trygve Lie also acquired a faith...
...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 capitals, into something resembling...
This was not the stringless independence Java's rebel President, Dr. Soekarno, had sought, but it was close enough to be palatable to most Indonesians. However, extremists attacked Dutch soldiers at Buitenzorg, and the mother country had a few extremists...
Giannini aspires to be the political voice of the Church as well as of Big Business. Last June he embraced Catholicism intensively; in one day Giannini, whose non-practicing Catholic father and English Protestant mother had never had him baptized, received four sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist and Matrimony (he remarried the woman to whom he had been wed in a civil ceremony years before...
...Wasowski was known only in Lwow, where he took lessons from his piano-teaching mother and played solos with the Lwow Philharmonic Society. When the Russians entered Poland they heard his fiercely impassioned interpretations of Chopin, packed him off to play in Russia. In Kharkov he performed nine times in three days ("It got too much for my nerves but I must say, it improved me technically"). After 186 Russian concerts, he returned to Lwow and got there just a few days before the Germans...