News for Ebbets Field

On the lawns of Lake Success one day last week 3,000 U.N. employees assembled to welcome their boss, Secretary General Trygve Lie, just back from his self-assigned five-week junket to Moscow, Paris and London. Mr. Lie was touched by the reception. Said he modestly: "I have just done what I thought was right."

Mr. Lie, who had had a 90-minute audience with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, brought back some interesting impressions. Stalin, he said, was in fine health and "sharp in his eyes." The U.S.S.R. had made great progress since Lie's last visit in 1946: "The streets were now repaired; there were new and large roads and avenues . . ." As for the people: "They wore shoes and they had ties now, and they had suits like anyone else." Lie had gone to a Moscow soccer match and, reported he, "looking around, I said to myself: 'That crowd could be transferred to Ebbets Field on a Sunday afternoon.' "

Lie had other news for Ebbets Field and the rest of the U.S. He had gone abroad to "fill the empty seats" at U.N.; i.e., to get the Russians, who had walked out of U.N. 4 1/2 months ago, to walk back in. Lie thought they would, provided that the West admitted Red China to U.N., a course which the Russians (and Lie) have advocated all along. Lie added he was sure Russia wanted U.N. to work. Whether Lie intended it or not, this could be taken to mean that it would be the West's fault if U.N. did not work. This week Lie will express his views in Washington. He implied that he would propose that talks be resumed to end the cold war. According to

Lie, "those in the Eastern countries and those in the Western countries" wanted peace.

Trygve Lie did not suggest that the peace they wanted in the East was vastly different from the peace they wanted in the West. Yet before he had finished with his peace offensive, someone was bound to ask the practical question: How are you going to get over that barrier?

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