biography
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Lie, Trygve (Halvdan)
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pronunciation:
[lee, trigvuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1968)
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| biography:
| Norwegian statesman and UN secretary-general (1946–52), born in Oslo (formerly Kristiania), Norway. He studied at the University of Kristiania, became a Labour member of the Norwegian parliament and held several posts, before having to flee to Britain (1940), where he was Norway's foreign minister-in-exile until 1945. He was elected the first secretary-general of the UN, but resigned in 1952 as a result of Soviet opposition to his support of UN intervention in the Korean War. He later became minister of industry (1963–4), and minister of commerce and shipping from 1964. |
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