CONFIDENCE IN U.N.

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26124, 29 May 1950, Page 7

CONFIDENCE IN U.N.

Comment By Mr Trygve Lie “NO GOVERNMENT WANTS WAR” (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 26. The Secretary-General of the United Nations <Mr Trygve Lie) said today that he thought the Soviet Government still had confidence in the United Nations and wanted it to function properly. He refused, however, to tell a press conference anything of the substance of his talks with political leaders in Moscow, London, Paris, and Washington. Mr Lie made the following points: (1) He did not take any message from President Truman to Mr Stalin. nor did he bring any message back from Moscow to Washington. (2) He had left a number of memoranda with the various Governments along his route, and he expected that it would take two or three months for them to study these. *3) His trip had been entirely in the nature of an “exploring mission." He said: “I wanted to find out if the cold war was just going on month after month, year after year, with no end but ultimate disaster.” <4.) His visits were not negotiations. They were a succession of exchanges of views and ideas. In a prepared statement read at the conference. Mr Lie said: “The situation is a most serious one. The longer the present deadlock continues, the more serious it becomes. We must begin a new effort this year to bring the cold war to an end through the United Nations, or we shall face the gravest danger that the world will be set finally on the road that leads to a third world war. My trip has confirmed my belief that no Government wants war. It has been the undertone to all the conversations I had with the Soviet leaders.”