Trygve Halvdan Lie
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Trygve Halvdan Lie , 1896-1968, Norwegian statesman, first secretary-general of the United Nations . A lawyer and Labor party leader, he was Norwegian minister of justice (1935-39) and minister of trade and supply (1939-41). He became (1941) foreign minister of the government in exile. Elected (1946) secretary-general of the United Nations, Lie took an active part in negotiations and incurred the enmity of the USSR by supporting UN action in the Korean War . In 1953 he was succeeded at the United Nations by Dag Hammarskjöld . In Norway Lie was appointed (1955) governor of Oslo and of Akershus prov. He also served as minister of industries (1963-64) and minister of commerce (1965). He wrote In the Cause of Peace (1954).
Bibliography: See his Public Papers, 1946-1956, ed. by A. W. Cordier and W. Foote (1969).
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