UNITED NATIONS: News for Ebbets Field

On the lawns of Lake Success one day last week 3,000 U.N. employees assembled to welcome their boss, Secretary General Trygve Lie, just back from his self-assigned five-week junket to Moscow, Paris and London. Mr. Lie was touched by the reception. Said he modestly: "I have just done what I thought was right."

Mr. Lie, who had had a 90-minute audience with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, brought back some interesting impressions. Stalin, he said, was in fine health and "sharp in his eyes." The U.S.S.R. had made great progress since Lie's last visit in 1946: "The streets were now repaired; there...

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