INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 43

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 25, 1949
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overshadowing all other 'J events 4 including the crgani. =-
zEtionus fourth birthday, was Yugoslavia's election to the SC
An the teeth of bitter Scv'. at opposition. Italian-inspired
Latin American opposition to the US compromise proposal for
1trea dinned prospects for Polving the Italian_ Colonies
question at this GA session. Mear:whlle the GA referred the
legal issues arising from alleged Satellite human rights vio-
lations to the Intern t1.oaa1 Court (47?5?3); continued the
Korean Commission (48-6-3); and irdefinitely extended the We
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of the Soviet-boycotted "Little Assembly" (41-6-6). Meanwhile
in Europe it appeared as if the whole issue of revitalizing
the ERP? and giving it a new err.phasis would come to a Lead at
the CEEC Council r eetin,:; ; rour^d 31 Cctober..
Gil retains critical attitude toward USSR. Speculation.
whether Soviet possession o the atom bomb would alter existing
UN political alignments seers to We been resolved in the
negative by recent roll calls in the GA. Concrete tests of UP
reaction were recently provided by the bitter struggle betweE:n
7ugoslav1a and Czechoslovakia for the Eastern European SC seat,
a~ud by the hotly disputed issues of observance of human rights
in the Satellites a? d ccntinno0nn of the controversial. tI
h rean Commission. In all three, the USSR suffered resounding
defeats and In the him ;An rights case, the majority vote was
greater than last sprirg. So far, the USER has found the going
Pougher in this GA than in any previous session. Neither acquit
:Ji.tiof of the A-bom:h, rcr Vi.s:h rsky's new-found cordiality seem
to have rade friend or -y.r?1uerccd people at Lake Success. On
the other hand, when the GA cores to corsider the problem of
the A-bomb itself, I t is :ertP it that the fact alone that a
eeond najor power has ac .rimed this weapon will exert new pres-
sure to find a solution.,
,V-'L RiF,VL recopt Ion r Buhr labor. The American Fedora-
_L_ - ion of Labor is stron ? y supra rtinp trade union renresent:aticn
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the Ruhr Authorl Uy as a means of cor:ba tt irg growth of` Com-
unist influence in that strategic industrial areas At the
September internet.iona1 conference of miners and rretal worke;s
In Brussels, the AFL oriented the conferees away from abstracct
discussion of "internationalization" and irduced them to agree
,)n concrete proposals to the Buhr Authority and Allied High
Ccr.,missioners for representation of both German and allied
trade unions. Sirruitanecusly the AFL is seeking to strengthen
U e International Miners Fede d?at*Uori and to convert it Into &' ,i
effective instrument for countering the appeal to German workers
c the recently organized WFTU Metal and Engineering Workers
Internationa.L In a further effort to strengthen anti-Co:rrtanist
labor throughout the Western '.ores, both the AFL and the CIC:,
wil? probably press for full rest German representation In the
.ni ;.' trade union inter iati.ona ., By these efforts the AFL, With
the support of the clu and the Rrl` tish TUC, underscores its
conviction that association of democratic trade unions in the
administration. of the hul,r Is essential if the Communist bit
for control of German labor is to be effectively chall_er:tged.
3 ~~ e ~pr nd te~ chri ue turned a;s4 f.ns t USSR. ?'I
Soviet device of utilizing international conferences as sou'id?
:ng boards for propaganda. k.as bees turned against it very r-'atl.y
by Yugoslavia Ira a way which proves the USSR a good teacher and
ugoslavia an apt pupils The forum was the GA Legal Comr it~:ee$
which had before it the proposed Declaration of the Right: and
Duties of States,, Y'ugosi.av a promptly offered twenty-five