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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY '81, 1948.
U.N.O.'S. NEW KEY-MAN Secretary-General A Carpenter's Son
Cheaper U.S. Press Rates
WASHINGTON, JAN, 29, NEW REDUCED · OABLE RATES FROM AMERICA TO PARTS OF EMPIRE,
DRAD!
THE BRITISH BEGINNING IN
APRIL AT THE LATEST, ARE EXRECTED TO. IMPROVE TRADE AND GIVE NEYS
ACS AN CARRY OTHER
PARBIL AND OPPORTUNITY
MORE
NEWS
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OF
Coonis are expected
Both
shortly to
the rawa atend on when Americs and the British met in Bermuda
November
Doing
the fa noint in
At tho mart, thirty cents
ABY word from United States to any the British Commonwealth: pre matter at 655 ounten word.
Compared with the my rate of three dollars for a ten-word stage here are some
of the old rates; $7.10 to Arabia: $8.00 to Malay States: $6.00 to South Africa: $5.80 to Australia; $7.30 Hongkong: 36,20 to Solomon Islands: $3.60 to Gibraltar.
A hundred-word press story is Boon to cost $6.50 to any place in the Commonwealth with pre viously cost: 316 00 to Hongkong; $12.50 to South Africa: $9.00 50 Melbourne.
Talents As An
Arbitrator
LONDON, JAN, 30.
MR. TRYGVE LIE, WHO WAS NOMINATED SECRE- ⚫TARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OR- GANISATION ON TUESDAY NIGHT, IS A STOCKY, LABOUR LAWYER 50-YEAR OLD NORWEGIAN WITH A DISLIKE FOR HANDLING DETAILS AND A RECOGNISED TALENT FOR NEGOTIATING. LIE. SON OF A CARPENTER, HAD NO BACKGROUND IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMAGY WHEN HE DE- CAME NORWEGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN 1941, BUT THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER HE HAS SHOWN WHAT HE CALLS AN "IMPASSIONED" INTEREST IN NORWEGIAN POLITICS AND LABOUR LAW, AND NORWAY KNOWS HE IS A GOOD HAND IN BRINGING DISPUTING PARTIES TO AN AGREE- MENT.
Florid-faced and intensely enor-1 gatic, with coal-black curly hair, Lio Lill devotes many leisure hours to ski-ing and playing ten nis and has a honaty love for good food, good wine, good conversation and a good joke. He works long and hard but his friends sur be secms never to tire or to lose his knack of inspiring colleagues and co-workers.
Lie was born in Osio in 1896. He entered the University of Cajo
VON PAPEN
FAMILY ORDERED
OUT
Nuernberg. Jan. 29, The French military govern- in 1914 and completed his legal ment, in the Saar on Monday, training in 1919. That year he notified the 35-year-old wife and got his first job as Secretary-Gon-three unmarried daughters of cral. It was for the Norwegian Franz Von Papen that their Labour Party. He kept the office
U.S. Strike Optimism
Washington, Jan. 10. Renonversion Director John W. Sayder, resterday expressed high optimi
OYC7 proapetta of stilling the steel. General Motors and other strikes in the United States.
od
Iranian Negotiations With Russia
London, Jan, 80,
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