UNITED NATIONS: That Old Feeling

Trygve Lie had his worst week in a long time. It was bad enough that President Truman spoke right out and said the Mediterranean problem was too "urgent" to be turned over to Lie's peace machine at Lake Success. It was even worse for an old trade-union man to be reduced to shouting to some 2,000 disgruntled U.N. staff members: "I am not a tyrant!"

One-Man Battle. To set the staff straight on a few things, Lie called a mass meeting in the long, brick-walled public lobby at Lake Success (no other chamber was large enough). Lie told his staff...

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