INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 16 FOR WEEK ENDING 25 APRIL 1950 THE INTERNATIONAL WEEK

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• Publication Date: April 25, 1950
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INTERNATICNAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION
WEEKLY SUM)IiARY NO., 16
For week ending 25 April 1950
The International Week
Volume III
The USSR demanded immediate establishment of a Trieste
government in conformity with the Italian Peace Treaty and prompt
evacuation of Anglo-American occupation forces. However on the
issue of Jerusalem, the USSR withdrew its previous support of the
GA decision to internationalize,. Meanwhile unconditional pro-
hibition of the use of the A-bomb became the dominant note in the
Soviet Inspired Peace Partisans` drive.
Soviet reversal on Jerusalem ipternat onalization. By with-
drawing its previous support of the Genera. Assembly's decision
to internationalize Jerusalem, the USSR has now assumed a position
similar to that of the US and UK. Notwithstanding the current
Soviet boycott of the U.N, the fact alone that all three major
world powers now oppose internationalization apparently ensures a
eversal of the 1949 GA decision next fall.
The Soviet demarche burst upon the world without forewarning.
Possibly the USSR was primarily motivated by a desire to recoup
some part of the severe losses sustained by both the Israeli Com-
munist Party and the extremist wing of the leftist Mapam resulting
from Soviet support of a proposal which was abhorrent to Israeli
nationalism, At the same time, from the Soviet standpoint,, the
reversal may have seemed incidentally desirable as a means of disco
o mfitingthe Vatican which strongly supports an internationalized
Jerusalem.
Libvan Council meets. Organizing itself In Tripoli, the UN
Advisory Council for Libya, created by the General Assembly, has,
Just begun its task of helping the Libyan people to form an inde
pendent government. As its first order of business, UN Cowmissio
Pelt has asked advice on the scope of his own duties and the con-
stitutional development of the unified Libyan state.
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responsible for determining the structure of the state. It
appears likely that a loose confederation under the leadership
of Emir Sayed Idris ellSenussi of Cryenaica will be favored. A
Provisional Government would then be established, under this plan,
by the National Assembly and could negotiate defense arrangements
with the UK, tE and France.
The composition of the 10-member Advisory Council, its re-
lationship with Pelt9 the actions of the British and French authori-
ties, and the strategic factors involved may all prove to be
sources of disharmony. However, as this constitutional develop-
ment goes forward there are grounds for cautious optimism that
the UN stay succeed in solving a complex question in which several
major powers are concerned.
Peke Partisans seek worldwide support for ban on atoms bomb.
A major drive for unconditional prohibition of the atomic bomb and
punishment of the first government using it has been launched fol-
lowing the recent World Peace Partisans' Stockholm meeting. Col-
lection of signatures for "the Stockholm Appeal" is the "central
task in the struggle for peacewaccort')'Ling to the Cominform Journal.
Coordinated efforts to promote this drive have been made by
national peace conferences" in Norway, Australia and Pakistan,
by the Italian Communist Youth movement, and by the Democratic
Women International (WIDF)O During its recent Helsinki meeting,
the WIDF, together with the Finnish Peace Partisans, sponsored
mass meetings to publicize the Appeal and the Finnish Communist
press now claims signatures of most of the Finnish Cabinet.
The concentration of the Soviet press and the front organiza-
tions on this drive in support of the Stockholm atomic resolution
reflects the importance which the USSR attaches to it. Soviet
determination to do the utmost to arouse popular war fears in
Western countries is highlighted by the resolution's der-and for
punishment of the government first using the bomb as a "war criminal".
This demiand, drafted by Communist nuclear physicists at Stockholm
and accompanied by a renewed call for reduction of armaments, is
intended to put the North Atlantic Powers and particularly the US
on the defensive and to reinforce the fiction that the USSR is to-
day the strongest champion of world peace. So far, however, props.
Banda appeals of this kind by the Peace Partisan committees have
achieved little success in the Western countries* Moreover, al-
though the latest appeal may to some extent stimulate existing war
fears, it is unlikely to win substantial support among Western
peoples or to conceal the essential aim-of its Communist authors
to disarm western governments,,
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Social Commission votes to continue ICEF. The US recently
lost an inning when the UN Social Commission voted 1C-3 to con-
tinue international Children's Emergency Fund feeding and
medical operations. Contending that the emergency for which
the fund was created is over, the UE favored a permanent UN
body, financed through the regular I?N budget., to keep children $ s
needs under review and emphasize technical assistance. Although
it is difficult to see how the ICEF can continue its present
feeding and medical programs without US financial support, a
Congressional bill to continue the Fund for another year stands
a fairly good chance of passage. Under the circumstances, the
US might reconsider its position for this year but meanwhile
has reserved the right to reopen the cuestion before the Economic
and Social Council.
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