Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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“A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.”
Trygve Lie
“I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.”