"Great Patriotic War, Stalin commended him saying a good diplomat was ""worth two or three armies at the front"". Gromyko was appointed Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations (UN) in April 1946. The USSR supported the election of the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, a former Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs. However, in the opinion of Gromyko, Lie became an active supporter of the ""expansionist behaviour"" of the United States and its ""American aggressionist"" policy. Because of this political stance, Gromyko believed Lie to be a poor Secretary-General. Trygve's successor, Swede Dag Hammarskjöld"
"has ever been rejected by the General Assembly. The appointment of the first UN Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, in 1945 saw a different selection process to that of his successors. Following his recommendation by the Security Council, the General Assembly held a secret ballot which saw Lie elected with 46 votes to three. The General Assembly also took an atypically prominent role in the re-appointment process deciding to extend Lie’s term by majority vote in light of the Security Council being unable to agree on a recommendation for the next Secretary-General. The 1 for 7 Billion campaign has been advocating for"
"UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie in developing the 1949 Armistice Agreements that ended the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. After Trygve Lie’s resignation in 1952, he acted frequently as spokesman for Dag Hammarskjöld, who had become secretary-general in 1953. He accompanied him on many missions, including his visit to the Middle East following the Suez Crisis on 1956-57. After which he co-ordinated salvage operations with American salvage companies of the sunken ships that blocked the Suez Canal. He was also in charge of press liaison at the Four Powers' summit conference and foreign ministers' meeting in Geneva in 1955 and worked closely with"
"In November 1952, Trygve Lie announced his resignation. The Soviet Union had vetoed Lie's re-selection in 1950, and it considered the General Assembly's extension of his term in 1950 to be illegitimate. Since then, the Soviet Union had ignored Lie, addressing all communications to ""The Secretariat"" rather than the Secretary-General. With negotiations for a Korean Armistice Agreement in progress, Lie felt that a new Secretary-General could restore a working relationship with the Soviet Union. Both superpowers experienced a change of government during the selection, with Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration in January 1953 and Joseph Stalin's death in March 1953. The United"
"party. Like many Liberals, he passionately believed that education was the key to social reform. Jebb died on 24 October 1996 at the age of 96, and is buried at St. Andrew's, Bramfield, in the county of Suffolk. Publications by Jebb include: The papers of 1st Lord Gladwyn were deposited at Churchill Archives Centre at the University of Cambridge by his son, 2nd Lord Gladwyn, between 1998 and 2000. Gladwyn Jebb Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn known as Gladwyn Jebb (25 April 1900 – 24 October 1996), was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician as well"
"a term beginning 1 January 1997. The 1996 selection marks the only time that a sitting Secretary-General was denied a second term. The elderly Boutros-Ghali initially intended to serve only one term, but he ran for a second term in 1996. Traditionally, the Secretary-General is entitled to run unopposed for a second term. No sitting Secretary-General had ever been denied a second term by a veto. In the 1950 selection, Trygve Lie was vetoed by the Soviet Union, but he was re-appointed by the General Assembly without a recommendation from the Security Council. In the 1976 selection, Kurt Waldheim received"
"and violence. Save the Children has general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In 2016, former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt was appointed Chief Executive. The Save the Children Fund was founded in London, England, on 15 April 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton as an effort to alleviate starvation of children in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Allied blockade of Germany of World War I which continued after the Armistice. The Fight the Famine Council was initially started earlier in 1919 in order to put political pressure on the British government to"
"to the General Assembly in New York in 1952. On 20 December 1954, he was elected to take his father's vacated seat in the Swedish Academy. On 10 November 1952 Trygve Lie announced his resignation as Secretary-General of the United Nations. Several months of negotiations ensued between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, without reaching an agreement on his successor. On 13 and 19 March 1953, the Security Council voted on four candidates. Lester B. Pearson of Canada was the only candidate to receive the required majority, but he was vetoed by the Soviet Union. At a consultation of"
"in the United Kingdom. In 1924, the League of Nations adopted Jebb’s charter on children’s rights. Save the Children International Save the Children International, formerly known as the International Save The Children Alliance, is a worldwide non-profit organisation which aims to improve the living of children. There are 30 Save the Children member organisations around the world. The Save the Children Alliance was founded in Geneva in 1972 by a number of Save the Children members, to co-ordinate their work. In 1997 a more formal structure was set up and the organisation was renamed the International Save the Children Alliance."
"for Minister of Foreign Affairs Trygve Lie. He became known to the occupied Norwegian people for his news commentaries, broadcast from London through BBC Radio. His impact as an exiled commentator was only comparable to that of Toralf Øksnevad; historian Hans Fredrik Dahl notes that ""judging by contemporary sources <nowiki>[the two held]</nowiki> an entirely unusual authority"". A collection of these commentaries was published in 1946 as ""100 kronikker"". Also, in March 1942 he married Sigrid Vidnes (1900–1989), widow of Jacob Vidnes. After the war Ording continued as foreign affairs advisor under Halvard Lange, although he declined Lange's offer to be"
"assistant secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Provisioning and Reconstruction. In 1945 he became acting assistant secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he was an advisor for the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1946. He was also a secretary for the Labour Party parliamentary group for some time. He worked in the United Nations Secretariat from 1947. During this period he became internationally known for initiating the fundraiser United Nations Appeal for Children. Wrote Time Magazine; ""the worldwide campaign [...] was conceived by Norway's tall, blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer Aake Ording, to fill"
"United Nation’s War Crimes Commission and the inter-allied committee that set up the International Court of Justice in The Hague. After his retirement as ambassador in 1946, Colban was still a part of diplomatic life. From 1946-47 he was chairman of the Norwegian delegation for the preparation of a broad international UN conference on trade and administration. He was also the Norwegian delegate to the Havana Conference during 1947-48. As a final point in his career from 1948 to 1950 Colban became the personal representative for the UN secretary general Trygve Lie, in the negotiations between India and Pakistan concerning"
"children's international development agency Save the Children. Richard Jebb (journalist) Richard Jebb (1874–25 June 1953) was an English journalist and author in the field of Empire and colonial nationalism. He was the nephew of the classical scholar and politician, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb. He went to school at Marlborough College followed by New College, Oxford. During the First World War, Jebb was a captain in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, spending most of the war in England, serving as an instructor. Of Jebb's sisters, Louisa Wilkins established the forerunner of the Women's Land Army during the first world war, and"
"During March 1953, he prepared Tito's first official state visit to a Western country. Tito thus became the first communist leader to visit the UK. In 1960, on invitation from the United Nations general-secretary Dag Hammarskjöld, Velebit became executive secretary at the UN European Economic Commission (UNECE) in Geneva. He performed this job up until his retirement in 1967. Known in Western circles as a skilled diplomat, his last assignment was as an emissary of the Carnegie Foundation in the Isreli-Palestinian conflict. In the early 1990s during the Yugoslav breakup and the beginning stages of the Yugoslav Wars, Velebit moved"
"9 October 1952. Its site—like UN headquarters buildings in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi—is designated as international territory. The Norwegian Foreign Minister, Trygve Lie, was elected as the first UN Secretary-General. Though the UN's primary mandate was peacekeeping, the division between the US and USSR often paralysed the organization, generally allowing it to intervene only in conflicts distant from the Cold War. A notable exception was a Security Council resolution on 7 July 1950 authorizing a US-led coalition to repel the North Korean invasion of South Korea, passed in the absence of the USSR.), and the signing the Korean Armistice Agreement"
"replied on 15 January 2003 saying she was ""unable to confirm the veracity of it"" and did not publish it. When, on 26 January 2003, The Irish ""Sunday Independent"" published the story, ""The Irish Times"" finally followed the next day, 27 January. Nonetheless, on 24 April 2004 Kennedy defended her position by saying, ""The contents of the letter in question were published on January 27, 2003, as soon as its existence was drawn to my attention."" Douglas Gageby was married to Dorothy, daughter of Seán Lester (last Secretary General of the League of Nations). His daughter, Susan Denham was the"
"2011 as a consequence of a petition initiated in June 2010 by 22 members of the European Parliament, including members of all major political groups (ALDE, EPP, Greens-EFA, GUE/NGL, and S&D). This call for action was signed by another 140 elected officials from across Europe, and led to an exploratory project funded by the initiators, which in turn resulted in the founding General Assembly on 30 June 2011. Ieke van den Burg, a former MEP, was appointed Chair of the Board of Directors and Thierry Philipponnat, a former banker and Amnesty International executive in France, became the Secretary General. In"
"but currently is based once more in London. Since 2010 it has been known as Save the Children International. Save the Children International continues the worldwide aims of the original Save the Children organisation, which was founded in 1919 in London and became part of the International Save the Children Union founded in Geneva in 1920. Save the Children was founded in 1919 after the First World War. It was founded in the United Kingdom by Eglantyne Jebb, a British social reformer, in order to improve the lives of children through better education, economic help, emergency aid, and health care"
"Derek Gladwin, Baron Gladwin of Clee Derek Oliver Gladwin, Baron Gladwin of Clee, CBE (6 June 1930 - 10 April 2003) was a British trade unionist. Born in Grimsby, Gladwin was educated at Ruskin College and the London School of Economics. Gladwin worked for the General and Municipal Workers' Union from 1956 to 1990, rising to the position of Regional Secretary (Southern Region). He was Chairman of the Conference Arrangements Committee of the Labour Party from 1974 to 1990, a position of considerable importance within the Labour Party. Gladwin was appointed OBE in 1977 and CBE in 1979. On 28"
"Haakon Lie Haakon Steen Lie (22 September 1905 – 25 May 2009) was a Norwegian politician who served as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. Coming from humble origins, he became involved in the labour movement at an early age, and quickly rose in the party system. After actively working for the resistance movement and the exiled government during World War II, he was elected to the second-highest position in the party after the war, and his years in office were the most successful in the party's history. Lie is widely considered – along with"
"was unfolding on the European continent. On 1 December 1942, the Norwegian foreign minister, Trygve Lie sent a letter to the British section of the World Jewish Congress where he asserted that: Although the Norwegian resistance by the fall of 1942 had a sophisticated network for transmitting and propagating urgent news among the population that led to very effective passive resistance efforts, e.g., in keeping the teachers' union, athletics, physicians, etc., out of Nazi control, no such notifications were issued to save Jews. The Protestant religious establishment in Norway did, however, make their opposition known: in a letter to Vidkun"
"and carry on reduced operations. The headquarters of the League, the Palace of Nations, remained unoccupied for nearly six years until the Second World War ended. At the 1943 Tehran Conference, the Allied powers agreed to create a new body to replace the League: the United Nations. Many League bodies, such as the International Labour Organization, continued to function and eventually became affiliated with the UN. The designers of the structures of the United Nations intended to make it more effective than the League. The final meeting of the League of Nations took place on 18 April 1946 in Geneva."
"founded in 1946 but had its recognition by the party withdrawn in 1967 after it was taken over by supporters of the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League. While the Scottish organisation continued, the Labour Party was left without a national student body. One of the principal areas of conflict was the Vietnam War, with Trevor Fisk, the leading member of the traditionalists, refusing to criticise Harold Wilson's government over its tacit support for the United States in the war. The fight against Fisk was led, in particular, by Jack Straw, who supplanted Fisk as President of the National Union of Students"
"Secretary General of the United Nations when Kofi Annan's term expired. After the Cedar Revolution the Kataeb factions were united under the leadership of Gemayel. After Gemayel's son Pierre was assassinated in November 2006, Amine ran for his late son's seat. Amine lost by a small margin to an unknown candidate presented by Michel Aoun as a member of the Free Patriotic Movement. In February 2008, Gemayel was appointed the president of the Phalange or Kataeb Party, replacing Karim Pakradouni, who resigned from office in 2007. Gemayel married Joyce Tyan in December 1967. They had a daughter, Nicole, and two"
"goitre, Eglantyne Jebb died in a nursing home in Geneva in 1928, and is buried there in St George's cemetery. Save the Children, which she and her sister Dorothy (who converted to the Society of Friends with her husband) founded in England in 1919 and as an international organisation based in Geneva the following year, remains active today. Also, the Church of England remembers her life and service annually on its liturgical calendar on 17 December. Eglantyne Jebb Eglantyne Jebb, (25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928) was a British social reformer and founder of the Save the Children organisation."
"Joseph Avenol Joseph Louis Anne Marie Charles Avenol (; June 9, 1879 – September 2, 1952) was a French diplomat. He served as the second Secretary General of the League of Nations, from July 3, 1933 to August 31, 1940. He was preceded by Sir Eric Drummond of the United Kingdom, who was general secretary between 1920 and 1933, and he was succeeded by the Irish diplomat Seán Lester, who was general secretary between 1940 and 1946, when the League dissolved following the aftermath of World War II in 1946. Avenol was sent to the League of Nations from the"
"countries was held in London, where it was resolved to create an international coalition to support collaboration between organisations. In October 1947 the International Federation of Workers' Educational Associations (IFWEA) was officially launched at a conference in London where a formal constitution was adopted. Worker representatives from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden attended, while observers from Germany, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and the United States of America were present. A President and Secretary General were elected, and an Executive Committee was appointed with regional representation. Representation is now regularly modified to reflect the"
"also served on the Board of Governors in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund in 1945. He then headed the Central Bank of Norway from 1946 to 1954. He presided over the International Statistical Institute from 1947 to 1951, and was an honorary member. As the Chairman of the Nobel Committee, he delivered the Presentation Speech to The Nobel Peace Prize 1947 to the Quaker Friends Service Council (British) and American Friends Service Committee (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1947/press.html). He was also a member of the Liberal Party's national board for some time. He died in January 1971"
"December 1949. The United Nations Office in Geneva includes the headquarters of various international organisations including the World Health Organization, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Labour Organization. From 1949 to 1973 the role was titled 'Permanent Delegate'. Between 1980 and 1982, Francis Patrick Donovan served as 'Special Trade Delegate' while remaining ranked as an Ambassador. From 1983 to 1997 there was a separate Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, but from its establishment in 1979 to 1983 and from 1997 to present it has been held by the"
"the war. In 1946 he turned over the League's assets and functions to the newly established United Nations. In 1921, he was created an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Joseph Avenol Joseph Louis Anne Marie Charles Avenol (; June 9, 1879 – September 2, 1952) was a French diplomat. He served as the second Secretary General of the League of Nations, from July 3, 1933 to August 31, 1940. He was preceded by Sir Eric Drummond of the United Kingdom, who was general secretary between 1920 and 1933, and he was succeeded by the Irish"
"September 1994, Gladwin was made a life peer, as Baron Gladwin of Clee, of Great Grimsby in the county of Humberside. In the House of Lords he served as a Labour whip. Derek Gladwin, Baron Gladwin of Clee Derek Oliver Gladwin, Baron Gladwin of Clee, CBE (6 June 1930 - 10 April 2003) was a British trade unionist. Born in Grimsby, Gladwin was educated at Ruskin College and the London School of Economics. Gladwin worked for the General and Municipal Workers' Union from 1956 to 1990, rising to the position of Regional Secretary (Southern Region). He was Chairman of the"
"Save the Children, and declared 28 December 'Innocents Day' in order to collect donations. The first branch was opened in Fife, Scotland in 1919. A counterpart, Rädda Barnen (which means ""Save the Children""), was founded later that year in Sweden. Along with a number of other organisations, they founded the International Save the Children Union in Geneva on 6 January 1920. Jebb built up excellent relationships with other Geneva-based organisations, including the Red Cross who supported Save's International foundation. Jebb used many ground-breaking fund-raising techniques, making Save the Children the first charity in the United Kingdom to use page-length advertisements"
"the Nobel Prize for his commitment to, and defence of, the League of Nations and the pursuit for peace and disarmament amongst its members. The outbreak of WWII led the Chairman Bill Astor to decentralise the Institute, with the majority of staff moving to Balliol College, Oxford. Throughout the war years the Institute worked closely with the Foreign Office who requested various reports on foreign press, historical and political background of the enemy and various other topics. The few who remained in London were either drafted into various government departments or worked under Toynbee, dedicating their research to the war"