Editing Trygve Lie (section)

==Early life==
Lie was born in [[Kristiania]] (now Oslo) on 16 July 1896.<ref name="Husen">{{cite book |last=Husen |first=Van |date=2010 |title=The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History |publisher=ABC-CLIO |pages=504–506 |isbn=978-1851098491}}</ref> His father, carpenter Martin Lie, left the family to emigrate to the [[United States]] in 1902 and was never heard from again. Trygve grew up under poor conditions together with his mother Hulda and a sister who was six at the time. His mother ran a boarding house and café in [[Grorud]] in Oslo.<ref name="Immigrant1">{{cite magazine |title=Immigrant to What? |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,852919,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050115130129/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,852919,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 January 2005 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |pages=1–2 |date=25 November 1946 |access-date=17 December 2008}}</ref>

Lie joined the [[Norwegian Labour Party|Labour Party]] in 1911 and was named as the party's national secretary soon after receiving his [[cand.jur.|law degree]] from the [[University of Oslo]] in 1919. Lie was editor-in-chief for ''[[Det 20de Aarhundre]]'' ('The 20th Century') from 1919 to 1921. From 1922 to 1935 he was a legal consultant for the Workers' National Trade Union (named [[Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions]] from 1957). During this period, he acquired a reputation for settling disputes early and bringing test cases before the courts.<ref name="Husen"/> He chaired the [[Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund|Norwegian Workers' Confederation of Sports]] from 1931 to 1935.<ref>[http://biography.yourdictionary.com/trygve-halvdan-lie ''Trygve Halvdan Lie'' (LoveToKnow, Corp)]</ref>