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.

As the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie (1896-1968) worked for the withdrawal of Soviet forces in Iran and a ceasefire in Kashmir.

Secretary-General Trygve Lie has not received any request for a special session of the United Nations General Assembly to consider the Palestine dispute, he told a press conference this evening.

PROFILE of Trygve Lie, the Secretary-General of the U. N. Lie was born in a suburb of Oslo, Jul. 16, 1896, the son of a carpenter, who deserted his family … ...

I'm very pleased to be able to address you at this new Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security and Development. The UN's first Secretary-General was convinced that if the great powers could move ...

Five years ago, Norway's Trygve Lie was the Soviet Union's candidate for first president of the U.N. Assembly. He was beaten, 28 to 23, by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. Then Lie, with the ...

A sharp attack on Trygve Lie, former Secretary General of the United Nations, has been made by the Arab League on the eve of Mr. Lie’s presiding over an international labor conference here ...

FRANKFURT — Trygve Lie, secretary general of the United Nations, en route from Amsterdam to Prague, landed at Rhine-Main Airport this afternoon after bad weather had prevented his landing in ...

Although Trygve Lie didn't live to see the collapse of the Berlin Wall, his hopes were, at least partly, realized. When the Cold War ended, the Security Council united and opened a new chapter in ...