INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 9

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• Publication Date: March 7, 1950
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INTERNATICNAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION
WEEKLY S1Th ARY NO. 9
For week ending 7 March 1950 Volume III
The International Week
A blow was struck against European political unification when,
after France's 50-year lease of the Saar coal mines, Chancellor
Adenauer threatened that West Germany would refuse to Join the
Council of Europe. Jordan's Cabinet crisis threatened to halt-
further progress toward a non-aggression pact with Israel. The
international Court decided 19--2 (Brazil, Chile) that SC approval
was a condition precedent to admission of new UN members.
Negotiations looking to an Italo-Ethiopian rapprochement have
broken down.
Amman Cabinet Crisis sets back Jordan-Israel negotiations.
The failure of Samir Rifai to form a government ready to conclude a
non-aggression pact with Israel punctuates Abdullah's inability to
orce through his proposals in the face of persistent Arab hostility
leo any approach to normal relations with Israel. His enforced
recall of Tawfiq as Prime Minister will at the very least, for the
time being, arrest what seemed to be the most promising start thus
far toward the resumption of normal trade and communications in the
Holy Land. Apart from the sharp reaction of other Arab states, the
recent de facto incorporation of Arab Palestine into Jordan served
to introduce into the government and the population new elements
opposed to any quick modus vivendi with Israel. It is evident that
Abdullah had underestimated this force of hostile opinion among his
subjects.
The Israelis are extremely anxious to rescue the Jordan nego-
tiations if at all possible because they regard the success of
Abdullah's initiative as essential in order to remove what they
believe to be the key log in the whole jam which is holding up peace
in the Middle East. Accordingly Foreign Minister Sharrett has
appealed to the US to lend encouragement to Abdulish and will prob-
ably make a similar appeal to the UK.
Fabian tactics at Geneva. Meanwhile at Geneva though Jamali,
the Iraqi delegate, has assumed the role of whip in trying to
scourge the Trusteeship. Council into promptly executing the GA's
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,,N,idate to interxzationai Sze i,xia Major powers who would
be called upon to enforce any such plan are obviously moving with
all convenient caution. France and the [JS agree in seeking to
postpone final adoption -,f a Je:eiusa Lem statute at this TC session.
Instead they aim to have the TC charge its president with the task
'9f? sounding out the proL b:Le degree of cooperation which Jordan
and Israel are prepared to extend in implementing the statute, and
then reporting back to the TC at iti June session. If the responses
should be negative, as is anticipated, the TC would have no alterna-
.Lve other than ultimately to so report to the next General Assembly
and request further instructions. These tactics will probably enlist
the approval of the UK, Belgium, Argent na and the Dominican
Republic, and would d .spense wJ.th tte need. of calling a special
session of the GL.
_ The extended Soviet boycott of
Effects of Soviet ON waikou~:
the UN, now entering its eighth week, is damaging UN prestige and
supplying ammunition for Soviet propaganda. Despite the contention
that the walkout is illegal and the protestations that it must nct
be allowed to interfere with normal UN operation, the Western powers
privately admit that operations are not normal and that "provocative"
issues should be avoided during the Soviets' absence. This pre-
vailing undercurrent of uncertainty and pessimism at Lake Success is
symptomatic of the fear that the 6oviets may not return to the UN
.If the Chinese impasse is permitted to drag on too long. Under
these conditions the downward trerd of UN prestige will continue at
an accelerated pace so long as the Soviets boycott the organization.
In addition, the continued officlpl. representation of China by the
Taiwan Nationalists supplies anti:.-US propaganda material. "Walkout
Propaganda" is becoming a Communist perennial which is dragged cut
for a repeat performance at the Initial meeting of each UN body-in
which China sits. Accusations tit the US Is blocking the legitimate
aspirations of the Chinese people by preventing other UN members
from voting to unseat the dis radlted and moribund Nationalists are
bound to find sympathetic audiences in the Far East.
Eritrean veace hopes xace. 'lie JN eommission of Inquiry Iii
Eritrea will be faced with further outbreaks of terrorism and
violence as a consequence of Ethiopia s present rejection of ra ?)-
prochement with Italy.. Failure of both sides to agree on a formula
for settlement of differenl.es, particularly on the future disposi-
tion of Eritrea, makes more `ear t a:i7i an Intensification of rival
intervention in the territory. The effect of the continuance of
such disruptive activities or, the report of the Commission cannot
be anticipated, but i'k, Li:.st iure*ly color its thinking. A settlement
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!.th Italy, which would have received US-UK backing and strong UN
ti.apport,would appear more favorable to Ethiopian interests than the
greater uncertainties of examination by a critical and divided
General Assembly, which twice before has failed to reach a solution
of this question. The combination of states not presently disposed
4u meet Ethiopia's ambitions in the area include the Latin bloc,
traditionally friendly to Italy; the Arab League members, sympathetic
to the Moslem population in the territory; and the Soviet vote,
uncertain at best but quite likely to call. for independence of the
entire territory in accordance with established Soviet technique.
In the face of this lineup of undependable votes, and in order to
avoid exacerbation of Italo-Ethiopian relations to the danger point,
Addis Ababa may well have to re-examine its policy.
Conflict over NATO shipping gro Zp. Despite UK opposition,
the US proposal that a group be established within the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization to plan for wartime mobilization of merchant
shipping will probably be approved. The American view, supported
by France and Italy, is that NATO countries account for 90-95% of
world tonnage and that planning for its use is an integral part of
the over-all NATO planning function. The UK, on the other hand,
contends that shipping is a global not a regional problem and
requires a separate body, since otherwise most Commonwealth countries
Yid neutrals like Sweden could not participate. British concern
spears based on sensitivity to the Commonwealth reaction and on the
hope that Britain would have a more dominant role in a separate
board. However, a majority of treaty countries will most likely
favor strengthening the NAT organization and go along with the US.
ECOSOC completes tenth session. In the absence of its Soviet,
Czech and Polish members, the UN Economic and Social Council has
disposed of its 40-odd agenda items In short order, avoiding action
on some which might later be challenged by the missing delegations.
Conspicuous throughout the debates, as in other UN bodies, was the
stress laid by numerous delegations on the responsibility of the US
for promoting world economic stability and development. Likewise
conspicuous was the desire of all underdeveloped countries for
technical (if not other) assistance and the feeling of some of these
countries that world economic stability depends as much on their own
development and stability as on that of the US and other industri-
alized nations.
Perhaps the Council's most significant action was taken on
the report of a group of experts on measures to promote and maintain
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?ull employment and economic stability. Previously debated in the
A and in ECOSOC's Economic and Employment Commission, the report
received unanimous though not uncritical acclaim and will now be
forwarded to governments for their comments. In the light of such
comments, it will be reconsidered at ECOSOC's sunmr.er session where
proposals for action will be drawn up, laying the foundation for
possible international action to reduce the impact of the business
cycle.
Reconsidering its relationship with Non-Governmental Organi-
zations the Council withdrew the right of the nine "Category All
organizations to have items automatically included on the Council
agenda, an act designed to end repeated abuse of this privilege by
the World Federation of Trade Unions for propaganda purposes.
ECOSOC also granted "Category All status to the newly-formed ICFTU
with the understanding that the similar status of the AFL, now an
affiliate of the new international. be withdrawn. The Council post-
poned until its twelfth session a much-discussed AFL request for a
survey of forced labor in UN member countries. Although purportedly
unwilling to add this item to the already over-crowded agenda of its
eleventh session, the Council was undoubtedly influenced by the UK
position that while such an investigation would subject colonial
areas to scrutiny, it could not possibly be undertaken in the USSR
and its satellites, the precise areas where the AFL claims to have
found abundant evidence of systematic forced labor.
Communist internationals expand,_efforts in Colonial Africa.
The major international Communist front organizations are devoting
increasing attention to propaganda and penetration activity in the
dependent areas of Africa. The World Federation of Trade Unions,
preoccupied until recently in Western Europe and the Far East, now
appears ready to take a stronger Initiative in an area where it
considers the Western powers especially vulnerable. As early as
last July the Soviet WFTU representative called for assistance to
the trade unions of Asia and Africa as the WFTU's "most important
task" and urged the convening not later than 1950 of "a conference
of Asiatic countries and of the trade unions of African countries."
Although no African conference has yet been held, the WFTU has
demonstrated the Importance it attaches to this area by selecting
the French Sudanese trade unionist, Abdulla Diallo, as its repre-
sentative to the UN Economic and Social Council and by directing
him to press vigorously for UN action against "discriminatory
measures by color or race" in the territories of UN members.
Diallo, who reportedly received instructions on Communist labor
policy in Africa during a 1949 visit to Moscow, has been charged
by French authorities with complicity in the January rioting on the
Ivory Coast.
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The World Fed.eration of Democratic Youth, which maintains an
increasingly active "Colonial Bureau," has also begun to concentrate
greater efforts in French Africa. Coordinating with the African
Democratic Rally (RDA) and its magnetic leader, D'Arboussler the
WFDY recently sought to stage simultaneous "manifestations" In
France and in French West Africa demonstrating the common front
between the people of the "oppressing" nation and the "oppressed"
coloulal peoples. Although the prompt French colonial ban against
RDA political meetings and demonstrations removed the sting from
these plans the WFDY and its associated national youth movements
will probably attempt similar demonstrations with increasing fre-
quency in the coming months.
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