MR. LIE GOES TO MOSCOW.

This article reports that Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, had gone on a pilgrimage to the chief world capitals in the interest of peace. Moscow, Soviet Union, was the fourth capital to be visited, after which Lie promptly arranged to visit Paris, London and Washington for a second time. In Lie's mind, that question is certainly involved with the preliminary one, whether the Russians can be brought back to Lake Success in California. For many months, the important work of the United Nations has been almost at a standstill, because the Russians insist on walking out of every gathering at which representatives of Nationalist China are present. The Russians believe that the Western powers are most unlikely to fight unless attacked, and that therefore, for the present at least, the decision on war or peace is in their own hands.