RECORD OF U.N. SURVEYED

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25290, 16 September 1947, Page 7

RECORD OF U.N. SURVEYED

MR TRYGVE LIE SEES PROGRESS

“ BIG POWERS DISTINCTLY CLOSER” . (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (ReC. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 14; Nationalistic movements for the liberation of former colqnial peoples were a greater threat to world peace than differences between the victors of the second World, war, said Mr Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to-day in Baltimore. Mr Lie, who was addressing the united Nations Association of Maryland, said that although some of tne United Nations meetings in “the last year might have looked like teal fiascos, careful examination showed that every negotiation and every meeting had brought the nations a little further toward an understanding. Mr Lie declared that in comparison with the period after the first .world war the economic and political disturbances of the world to-day were not in any way as sensational as many people made them out. “Astonishing as it may seem, most of the important big Powers are distinctly closer to each other than’ they were in the twenties.”