INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 49

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01090A000100020003-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
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• Publication Date: December 6, 1949
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eel ending b December 194'
Volu! n 1.7.
As thw General sserrbly a tend toward adjournment, its`
S-. -vial Political Committee authorized a new $54,900 OOO O
eef and works program for .gal lei. ti rn1 an refugees (415-6), and
wmended the Hague settlement aT the _Indonesian case 437: ).'
Mo.nwhiia the GA Plenary (1) R 1ectc d the Soviet "peace" eadlu-
t :tin and adopted the Arplo=Amen =can substitute aimed at ti. i 'SR
'i ' Created a High Commissioner for refugees and displaced per-
sons after termination of the IA and (3) Approved the Fri nco-
Norwegian proposal fors census of conventional arms. In another
blow at the colonial powers it prolonged for three years the
life of the Special Committee for Information concerning MOW
and affirmed the GA ' s authority to determine which territcries
are non-self-governing, At L i of the critical issue whether!
to admit Europe c s Catholic trade unions to the Free Labor enter=
national was partially resolves. .
eastern labor ur_it r in balance as Cathoiic trade unions
WQgh_course. The success of Western labor's efforts to build
a unified non-Communist world labor movement at London was tied
precariously last week to an AFL-CIO bid to the European Catholic
unions to quit; the Catholic Trade Union International within the
next two years and enter the n= Labor International. This bide
accepted by the London Trade Union Conference over some Socialist
opposition, poses a difficult a oice for the leadership of the
two and one half to three million workers in the Cati olio unions %
whether-to join the new international on US assurances that it
will not be Socialist-dominated or to cling to the half -cratury
old Catholic International, Uaspit?; the two-year period of grace
allowed them, the Catholic Un:Wn leaders may be reluctant to pc-
cept 9 since their loyalty to t it own international is doep-
rooted while the unity of US :;iaoor in matters of foreign policy
is still new* Soviet awareness of the critical choice confront-
ing the Catholic unions was re,LLected in a resolution adopted at
the recent Condnform.meetin * ea:.linu for "special attention..?..
to the masses of Catholic worke;.?s. :, . {,and their organizations''
and emphasizing that" rclieiou; M an- iatiorns are not an obstacle
to working class taxi hyy.
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fivored seating the Peking governments the Nationalist delegation
would continue to sit. Going somewhat further, a Uruguayan
delegate favors a theory of collective action in matters of
recognition and believes that it would be appropriate. for an
agency of the collective international society to pronounce on
such auestionst. .Be may possibly raise the problem in plenary,
Professor Jessup.in his book A Modern Law of Nations has suggested
the desirability of having the UN work out a standard `procedure
for recognizing new states. Recognition of new governments, how.-
ever, presents a separate problem,, involving different legal and
political considerations. While the prospect of collective UN
recognition is at present remote, developments in the Chinese
case may herald a new and important role for the UN in dealing
with these problems
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llective considerations involved in the recognon of
Com,'iunist China by any single state Apparently the British,
While desiring to accord prompt recognition to the Peking govern'
men~.y are somewhat concerned with the broader implications of-
this step,, The UK is. reportedly embarrassed over the prospect
of its own recognition being followed by perhaps eighteen other
nations, which might well prompt the USSR to demand.,that the UN
seat the Peking goverraent notwithstanding the absence of US or
Trench recogntiono Such a development would align the UK with
the. USSR1 a position which the British do not relish.
To avoid this predicament! the UK has considered suggesting
that the t7N follow a unified policy with respect tee seating. new
governments, The British have been weighing the idea that Syg
Lie might canvass the UN membership and that an understanding
might be, reached that until a majority or perhaps 30 members'
r?
f,, the Pt Gov ernm . The existence of the UN. and., its
Col ctiye'versus 4 tion
11 go si ,rations in the recogn t jean.
DisaRp_oi ti.n progress toward Continental Economic p,
The recent FrendxE proposals for a Fritalux trade liberalization
bloc and Dutch counterproposals for a broader group including
Wes '.ern Germany and Scandinavia appear to be hesitant, inadequate
steps toward the ECA goal of a tight continental economic group