LORD GLADWYN, BRITISH DIPLOMAT, U.N. LEADER.Byline: David Stout The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Lord Gladwyn, a patrician diplomat who helped draft the Charter of the United Nations and served as Britain's representative at the organization in the early days of the Cold War, died Thursday. He was 96. His family said he died at his home in Halesworth, 90 miles northeast of London. As Gladwyn Jebb, Lord Gladwyn was appointed acting secretary-general of the United Nations in 1946 and organized the General Assembly's first meeting, which was held in London before the construction of the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan. He held the post until Trygve Lie Noun 1. Trygve Lie - Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968) Trygve Halvden Lie, Lie of Norway was named secretary-general late in 1946. As Britain's representative at the United Nations from 1950 to 1954, he became a familiar figure to television audiences as he fenced verbally with diplomats from the Soviet Union. He was British ambassador to France from 1954 to 1960 and a member of the European Parliament Member of the European Parliament member n → Eurodéputé m from 1973 to 1975. In 1960, he was given a hereditary peerage peerage Body of peers or titled nobility in Britain. The five ranks, in descending order, are duke, marquess, earl (see count), viscount, and baron. Until 1999, peers were entitled to sit in the House of Lords and exempted from jury duty. in the House of Lords House of Lords: see Parliament. and chose the name Lord Gladwyn. He attended the Yalta Conference Yalta Conference, meeting (Feb. 4–11, 1945), at Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. in February 1945. In an interview a quarter-century later, he recalled being shocked at the appearance of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. ``We said to ourselves that he shouldn't have come, he looked so ill,'' he recalled. Roosevelt died two months later. In a 1984 interview, Lord Gladwyn said he agreed with the view of some historians that Roosevelt had tried too hard to please Stalin at Yalta. And he expressed admiration for Harry S. Truman For other persons named Harry Truman, see Harry Truman (disambiguation). Harry S. Truman (May 8 1884 – December 26 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as vice president, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. , whom he called ``one of the best American presidents, outshining even his famous predecessor.'' Truman was not as clever as Roosevelt, not as ``charmingly aristocratic,'' nor as good a public speaker, Lord Gladwyn said. But he called Truman ``tougher, much better read, more courageous, more commonsensical, more shrewd.'' Lord Gladwyn's wife, Cynthia, whom he married in 1929, died in 1990. Survivors include a son, Miles, who becomes the new Lord Gladwyn, and two daughters, Stella and Vanessa. |
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