INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 11

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01090A000100030017-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: March 21, 1950
• Content Type: PERRPT

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For week enu .ing 2.11. Mai-ti Volume 111
Secret,r;ry Acheson s speech advan-,ing a seven point proposa.
;' i'or ending i+'~he cold we r has so far evoked only negative reactions
from the Cor, riunist press. At Lake Suess the Security Council.,
with the US E still absent. decided V) appoint a mediator to
supervise the demilita:ii.zation of Kasrim,ir. Meanwhile Poland wi' ;z--
drew from bath the international Sank and the Monetary Fund.
Palish exit - roni J-sank anc Poland's withdrawal from -;he
Internet 1Ofl a. Bank and the IiIonete ry Fund is one more step in the
USSR's r_awpa:ign to Iso.tate its satellites from the west. As the
first resignation from the sister institutions, which the USSR
:itself nevei? joined, ::.: may portend a similar withdrawal by
LL zechosiovak;.ia. sole remaining iron urtain member.
:n _c es =.gning, 1-oAand charged that the bank and Fur.d were tools
of Ar:erloan and as-oitas..is t policy, ac zusing the Bank, in particular,
of discrimi..nation against non- arshal.l Plan countries. Toa large
extent dependent on flotation of dollar loans in the US money
jrar et, the Bank is antithetical to the Soviet state trading
system, but this did not Initially prevent Poland from. joining in
the hope of obtaining !ubsitantial material benefits. These halte
not been forthcoming a. no large scale assistance could be antici-
pated at th.l'.s time,, i should be rioted that the Bank's operations
have been su.tbje>ct to 'riti`sism by many non-Communist sources on the
rou las of:.nfi exibility and stringency of loan conditions. These
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charges have been most frecuently sired by under-developed states,
and even the '(% "oloniai Developrent Jorporation recently refus;?d
dollar loan sta flat its terms would have amounted to an
o,.na ooepteble Intervention In the _;orporation's activities in
British colonies.
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eeirg no tangible return from membership, Poland at%empted
to use its r. esignation for purposes of propaganda thus recalling
:,'re withdrawal of the USSR from trio T.or..d Health Organization
s, :.zrir~an1_ed by similar outpourings of criticism and invective.
.n eaQ) case, ,r~oten'tia_i advantages came to be outweighed in the
rzdgemen o: the part t.. L11pa r ing st..a ces by ideological considerations,
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