INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 18

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 9, 1950
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LtT aRNATIQJJAL ORGAIIiLTMJIS DIVISION
J :. aY SUIT: !Uf}4 JU. 18
For week ending 9 NaY 1950
The lriternatfo:'1 Leek
Volume III
Extensive spade work prepared crie ground for the London meet-
lug where the British,, French and US foreign ministers will assess
the western position in the cold Ti and discuss future courses of
action As :world opinion registered general opposition to Hoover's
suggestion that the UN ~ffould be hie;.:ter or f ..without the USSR $ SYG
Lie planned to visit Uoscow in an c;. is ors: to restore MIT effectiveiars
i'eait pile j follouing Arab re jectiori, Lsrael unconditionally acce'pt.'
n d the Palestine Conciliation t o:r m .swop proposal to combine r:ledia.ro
Lion with direct negotiation been the parties.. On the inter--
national labor front, increased. artivi :y by Communist seamen and
portworkers in the Far East for rsf udowed early implementation of
the Communist-dFTU plan. to dislocate Pacific shipping.
ICFTU to or 7a .:L tin r er can Ke 2 I organzat on.. The
fall or winter 150 conference which t be Free Trade Union Corifedera-
tion (ICFTU) is planning, for non-Communist trade unions in the
American Hemisphere will probably witness the for .tion of a r?eg +on--
a l ICFTU organization for Latin America, The anticipated inclus'on
of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO),, reflects the de-
sire of the ICFTU leaders to attract the participation of Latin
American labor elements such as the xican -3orkers Federation
(CTTh), which have been reluctant to join a regional organization
too exclusively identified with the AFL The prospects for a broad-
ly representative regional organization are i:lrther improved by the
expected adherence of Brazilian tabor, ~~hich has hitherto not pai
ticinated actively in regional labor activities.
This deve lonrient a su:ro s part ! cui. it significance in the l1-9 i ht
of recent indications of incrca sc:d W ov l o interest in Latin Ame c n
labor Despite the relative loss :ai .+ifiaence of Loi:ibardo Tole-
dano'4s CTt'AL daring the past year, the USSR has demonstrated its con-
tinuing determination to exploit disco-,tents in this area by (4,0
subsidizing renewed iUFTU activity in Ls.tin America; (b) promoti a
exico City conference of oil. :iori or?s unions to form a ". FTU Petroleum
Workers International; and (c) at:t~=snpting to send top Soviet 4rfFTU
officials to last montti es confer?roe or the CTAL in i ontevideoo
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o: z:s to combat such : q3viet activities would be substantially
:~ .renorthened by the f ornation Of a strong and comprehensive Intin
American free labor con2aderstion fader SCFTU leadership,
itual 1 for~Er?trea_ Dg jgjrgg4 sentiment Is gron ng
among some members of the UN omm,t..sion of Inquiry (U::CO I '-Q) for
a direct UN trusteeship over Eritrea without partition. Guatemala,
previously an unequivocal supporter of imviediate independence, is
backed in this now proposal by Pakistan and possibly by Burma,
South Africa and ror^ray, the remaLiing UI1C OT.:INQ nembers, are likely
to sup'-ort partition of the territoryt along lines favored by the
US and UK.,
The Guatemalan proposal cui Ls for direct UN supervision. for a
ten-year period prior to i.rrdepexri ice v -ith a U11-appointed adriin:_s
trator? and an eight-Me r::ber adt isory counc:i.l,, similar to that func-
tioning in Libya W Under this plan, thorn would be no cession of
territory to Ethiopia, but the l.at er's claims would be partially
met by the establishment of free port zones in Assab and TTassava,
UI'COI7IIJQes divided report i"y furnish an opportunity for Maly and
Ethiopia, as the trio parties host directly concerrxed, to renew dis-
cussions looking to -ard a riutu:dly agreeable solution 'hick the "t'S
and UK could supports and ?rhich might win General Assembly approval.
tiQvye ?)lan opt)o&(jA. kx .mace nt loover's proposal that Vie
UN be reorganized 7Ithou't the US:P or its satellites has brought
extremely unfavorable -::arid :ride reaction. PTost press and official
x or.ment deplored this plan or any tendency to divide the world
Irreparably by destroying the principal remaining meeting ground for
Uast,41est discussions` _uch editorial sentiment felt that forclag
the USSR from the UN *,'rould constitute a long step toward war? Yugo-
slavia indicated it would be in a difficult position as the solitary
Communist state in a revamped UN and could remain a member in such
circumstances only if the Soviet bloc had rrithdrarrn on its otrn
Initiative, The Yugoslavs, however,,, commented that if Communist
China were a renber and dial not ?T Lthdraw with the USSR, Yugos lav is a s
position as a monber t:ould be strengthened The unfavorable re-,
action to the proposal to split the U.11 may increase public support
for Secretary-General Lie's of forts in =o: cow to seek comnon ground
on ;which to revitalize the Li: in hopes of attenuating the cold w,-x
U .,cop dissolution, Tie United 11ations s,~ecia.i
Committee on the Balkans (UN&CGL , established in October 1947
may be discontinued at the next session of the General Assembly
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he l e5oarti_lent ox O'cate : :. a ;; Uie U reek Y1,Lia J- _: E''=
,i'lm uic:;sufallt until the ezi of 'Jtly Vie Corry ittee should report
=:F ?ii* Generaj- Assembly hat the t"r+ at:`i to the political .1nci';,,,
1t :i zu~" lice aril erx'ilior ial 1nt",eg y o= G eeee ''ihich the GA re iolti-
Lon wt-, des:ij.uned to r1S:.et n:i 1 y1 E'r exist and that It therefore
t..oDriend$ the d. scontirruance .,f t1 e Cor ittee. It is probable
>:h u$ support ray s ~~r:h a re oimerx. ' c~ri ?. oald cnr and sufficient
votes to abolish VUSSCOB
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c01: ZJNIST PLaI 5 FOR A PACIFIC 31.IPPIN G TIE-UP
The formulation of a "plan of action" for dislocating ship-
ping in P c fic, L ustral an and Southern ksian ports has recently
been repw.h as one of the major results of the November, 1949,
Peiping Conference of the tiiorld Federation of Trade Unions G nur-
Lng the conference the Soviet *4FTU Assistant-Secretary secretly
nave orders for Corn!-.unist Wort and transport -orders to -prevent
the flow of military ecyr.ipr^ent from +estern Countries by tying up
Q - 't?r" convoys reaching ports in these areas., Local Communist
porkers are to concentrate first on. shipments arriving at Calcutta,
Saigon and Brisbane ?vhile the Chinese Communist unions take similar
action against ships docking in Lang Kong and Sin,,anore, To
organize 'corker support s of -?ic:_ent to rake these directives of "ec-
Live, independent strife core ittees are to be appointed, -=pith in-
structions to devise anti-?:-ar slol;::,ns and to build a rovolUtionary
trade union movement,
,ilthough it is too early to assess "rith any degree of accuracy
the capabilities of the . FTU's Peiping Bureau for implementing such
a plan of action, the iriport rnce which the USSR attaches to it is
reflected in evidence of on-the-spat Soviet direction and financial
aid. A. Soviet Foreign Office official attached to the Legation is
Bangkok is reportedly in char-Te of snecial funds which will be di:7-
bursed from Bangkok and possibly through Indian banks and "trust-
,iorthy?f representatives in Hong Kong. These operations ,-rill probably
be sup-_?orted by Corn-unist-infiltrated port and transport ?vorkers
organizations like the powerful IIoug Kong Seamens Union and the
Australian Searryens Union,, Clandestine aid may also be offered by
Communist-led raritirre unions in some L'S orts~
US and other Western labor organizations have recently initiated
plans for combatting this blow at Allied shipping in the Pacific :
During its last sleeting, the 53-nation Free Trade Union Confederation
(ICFTU) decided to send a dele ati+}n to Southeast Asia and India to
strengthen its contacts with non-Cornr-.unist labor in these areas?.b
The departure in the near future of a group of US labor leaders on a
similar mission enable US labor to take independent action to
combat gro-ing Cornrunist influence in the Far East. The success of
such counter--efforts, however, -.i1! be limited by their belated tim-
ing and by the substantial headway -hich the 1IFTU and the Chinese
Cor.:inunists have already r?a.de in many of the Southeast Asian countries
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