MR. TRYGVE LIE
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
White the News Ends Mr. Trygve Lie By William Henry Chamberin FOR THE FOURTH TIME TRYGVE LIE. Secretary General of the United Nations, has misused the influence and prestige of his office to...
...the initiative she has held since the war's end...
...Excitement killed It—and darned near us I Richard Armour...
...AuUtmnt Editor* Ana tola Bhub...
...STANDARD EQUIPMENT Soviet Walks Out at U.N...
...Washington Editor: Jonathan Stout...
...Says Lie, in accents strongly reminiscent of fellowtravelers and Kremlin appeasers the world over: It is a negative and destructive policy to spend one's effort on placing the blame for the world's troubles instead of on trying to reach a constructive solution of Ihem...
...The timing alone was significant, coming as it does during a period of upheaval in Southeast Asia...
...Until and unless the Chinese Nationalist regime is legally unseated, it is clear obligation of every member of the UN to work with its representatives...
...There is always plenty of blame to be shared by everybody...
...This resolution was stymied by a Soviet veto...
...For the presidency of the Assembly is an honorary post which rotates every year and carries little power...
...2. Withdraw its police and military forces from the satellite Eastern European states...
...To accept one-power dictation on this issue would be an intolerable humiliation fox-tbatrUN and for the overwhelming majority of its member states' which did not follow Moscow in its arrogant, insolent boycott...
...Lie, in collaboration with the then President of the Assembly, Herbert Evatt—a vain, garrulous, empty-headed Australian Henry Wallace type—drew up a resolution proposing that the Security Council should drop the case ahd refer it back fpr negotiation among the powers concerned...
...How many more Gubitchevs are in the UN bureaucracy we cannot know...
...Lie's second bow in the direction of Moscow occurred when he requested the Greek Govt, eminent to suspend the execution of some convicted communist murderers...
...BUT IT HAPPENS that the present paralysis of the UN is solely, obviously and exclusively attributable to the Kremlin...
...5. Call off its fifth column activities wherever they exist...
...But Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the UN, has taken another attitude...
...One of these appointments was the convicted Soviet spy Gubitchev...
...Max Danish...
...The creature died from all the fuss...
...This issue is whether a single member of the United Nations which cannot get its own way has any moral or legal right to attempt to enforce its will by the boycott method...
...This is about as logical as a denunciation of blackmail, accompanied by a practical recommendation to pay blackmail...
...Finally, and most significantly, Acheson re-affirmed the solidarity of the United States with Asiastic liberation movements, and emphasized that our opposition to communism was not "negative" but is based on the premise that communism is a reactionary doctrine which is attempting to stop "a (democratic) revolution that has been going on for a century and a half...
...for 15th Time —[Sewtpaoer hemdUme While other nations' diplomats Have pairs and pairs of pearl-gray spats And leather cases, quite official...
...Horace M. Kalian...
...c TRYGVE LIE'S APPEASEMENT RECORD focuses attention upon the dismal folly of the Western powers in acquiescing in his selection for such a strategic post...
...Eugene Lyons...
...This is the fourth occasion, that Lie, who likes to shelter himself behind the supposed impartiality associated with his office when condemnation of the Soviet Union for violation of human rights is involved, has shed his...
...Once let the precedent be set that any nation can get what it wants by staging a boycott and the United Nations as a responsible democratic organization is through...
...At the very least, then, we temporarily hold the psychological initiative...
...Over a period of months the Soviet Government has been engaged in an attempt to blackmail the United Nations Into expelling from membership thfc Nationalist Government of China...
...Is definitely more Inclined To need to be equipped with slews Of easy-fitting, sturdy shoes...
...Sidney Hook...
...The leopard that escaped his den _ And crowded Russia and UN From note, on being brought to cage , No longer roams from page to page...
...This was a typical exchange of shadow for substance, with the Kremlin getting the substance...
...Acheson demanded that Russia: 1. Help to unify Germany by agreeing to free elections under international supervision...
...Lie's third pro-Soviet move was made toward the end of 1948...
...It raises an issue which transcends in importance the question of whether...
...In his hands the general and administrative functions of ifce whole SeeTetarUt "are concentrated He makes all appointments within the United Nations In his own right...
...Here, for the first time, an American Secretary of State challenged the whole content of Soviet policy, and in effect demanded a complete reversal of its aggressive character...
...the Mao Tse-tung regime merits diplomatic recognition...
...In addition, the Secretary stressed the fact that America would aid, by economic, political and military means, those iireas struggling to escape from colonialism: and simultaneously warned Russia that any invasion plans she might have would be met by resistance on our part...
...BIASTLY INCIOINT A i ¦ •• * ¦ Excitemerit, Not Drug, Killed Escaped Leopard.—Newspaper headline...
...T The obvious answer would seem to be an emphatic no...
...The Politburo cannot meet it without violently reversing its current policy On the other hand, refusal to meet Acheson's conditions—which frame a positive modus vivendi between ourselves and Russia, a thing Soviet leaders claim to be seeking—will make Russia appear before the world as the real obstacle to peace...
...The New Leader EDITORIAL BOARD: Editor: WillUm E. Bohn...
...The Russian delegate, we find...
...Secretary General of the United Nations, has misused the influence and prestige of his office to appease the Soviet Union...
...Sellg Parlman...
...The Security Council had passed a resolution condemning the Soviet blockade of West Berlin...
...This is blackmail of the crudest kind, applied in an attempt to enforce a minority dictatorship...
...Executive Editor: 8. M. LitUh...
...Lie had ingratiated himself with the Kremlin when, as Minister of Justice, he expelled Trotsky from Norway...
...It was by keeping this question on the agenda until Soviet troops were withdrawn that one of Stalin's postwar imperialist ventures was frustrated...
...If successful, they will rob the UN of any shred of authority "and prestige...
...The Soviet method is to walk out of and boycott all UN agencies in which Nationalist China is »represented...
...Lie and Evatt proceeded on the assumption that no issue of right or wrong was involved, no question of one-sided aggression which was the proper concern of the Security Council...
...CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: John Chamberlain...
...And ball-point pen for busy Jotting And blotters close at hand for blotting...
...Acheson Speaks THE HULLABALOO provoked by Senator McCarthy's charges against the State Department should not be permitted to obscure the importance of two foreign policy statements made by Secretary Acheson last week...
...Drmmm Critic: Joseph T. Shipley...
...6. 'Treat our diplomats abroad1 in ttmfoTmity with international tradition...
...Piously professing dislike of walkouts and boycotts, he has proposed a formula for settling the present issue which would give the Soviet Union what it desires: expulsion of Nationalist China from the UN...
...When the United Nations began to function in 1946 it was thought a fair East-West deal to have the Belgian Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak as President of the Assembly, while Moscow's candidate, Lie, became Secretary-General...
...In his official attitude toward the Berlin blockade, as in his present attitude toward the Soviet boycott of the UN, the Secretary-General played the ignoble role of ready accomplice in Soviet blackmailing tactics...
...But on his proved record of invariably throwing the weight of his office to the Kremlin side In critical disputes, Trygve Lie should be regarded as completely disqualified to succeed himself when his term of office happily expires next year...
...MUKimte Editor* David J. Dallln, William Hanry Chamberlain...
...They lured the leopard from the street And drugged the beast with doped-up meat...
...Complete with seal and gilt initial...
...Marx Lewis...
...3. Cease its persistent boycotts of UN organs...
...Acheson's second statement, on Russia, was the more important of the two...
...7. Halt its vicious propaganda attacks upon us...
...Algernon La...
...On the other hand, the sweeping authority of the Secretary-General is accurately described in Louis Dolivet's The United Nations as follows: 'The Secretary-General has the broadest International powers ever conferred upon a single parson...
...He nfcver used >the authority of his office to intercede for anjj* of the numerous individuals who have, b*en convicted, on far less evidence, in thfc4fbn curtain countries...
...neutrality" in favor of the Kremlin.' The first occasion was in 1946 when Lie came out with the unsolicited and unwarranted opinion that the Iranian question should be taken off the agenda of the UN...
...Mmnrngine Editor: Daniel Jam...
...In the first of these, on the Far East, Acheson said little that was new, but much that is still pertinent and that we need to be constantly reminded of...
...It may possibly herald the beginning of an American diplomatic offensive to wrest from the U.S.S.R...
...4. Agree to vetoless international atomic control...
...Leon Dannen, John Dewey, Harry D. Gideons...
...Acheson's program obviously puts the Russians on the spot...
Vol. 33 • March 1950 • No. 12
