INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 10 F

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 14, 1950
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IN'T'.ERNAT iC DIAL OkSGA AI'ZATI O viii: !5 'sD
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Y or week ending 14 March 195,J
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DAT !4_ REVIEWEW:
Spurred by US threats t--.) reuu.se4 u` year a1d,, the 'UK has indi.-.
c,ai;ed willingness to parti :ipaLs -i a s=;:aropean, Payments Union,
Meanwhile at the UN, Secretary General Lie has sought to resolve
,.he Impasse over seating the Chinese C, mmunists by advocating
adoption of the criterion of ?e to :ontrol as the dete3,,Sning
onsiderationu
SYG Lie''s B emo can uhlneSe uts,esent:ation. The Se-rrecary.
General 'is recent memorandum un tD legal aspects of representa-
c:f on in the UN is the latest of his attempts to end the Soviet
boycott of the JN and could furnish a *onven .ent vehicle for elhd
trig the impasse. Lie makes three main points: (1) that national
recognition of a government Is ck ?tinct from representation in
the UN; (2) that the UN,, as an organization based upon s'univer
.ality1' of membership, must of necessity contain nations repre.-
enting conflicting ideologies- and C3 that ability to "exercise
effective authority's over its national. territory is the proper
,riterion to be applied in determ'.nir , which of two rival goverr -
snents should represent a xietnber State
Admitting that the presen! *.i i as u on, In which two govern-
ments claim to represerli. the safl,8 bta,'I-e~ is not specifically
covered in the UN Charter, Lie rests his argument on an analogy
drawn from Article 4 wh .h requires t?ia c applicants irust be "able
and willing" to carry ous. .he ob,ligat Lons of UN membership,
Although the "willingness" of the Chinese Communists to fulfill
charter obligations is open to doubt, this objection ignores th,~
doubtful. "willingness" of .ertal . other states whose UN rnem!.ber-
ship has gone unchallenged on thrse grounds. Furthermore, this
weakness In Lie's case is offset by the fact that when the more
easily applied test of "ab.l1ty"to fulfill charter obligations
t s used It is clear that the Cheese Peoples' Republic is the
y government which < an "e.~ e.se effer: hive authority" over
061 ~,- ~ 4. !
'hinese territory.
Lie's mem4.1trariau $rey -Utllegations a "way ouz," o1
the present impasse, rcuuad: clearly indicated that In
voting against the CLirieze Co tsr, ,lst it believed it was comply=
ink; with a US "revues O 1ild that `JS declarations that each Sed rity
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Council member should decide : . Jr ing to Its own interests t . - appear to be "double=--talk." fl ,e Egyptian delegate felt that the
US is not assuming the responsibility and leadership lncumber. t
upon it but rather is waiting for smaller nations to make the de-
cision for the US. These frank, :rit icisms, Implying a feeling
that ;.he 'US stand has been deliberately ambiguous, indicate that
at least some of the nations presently opposed to seating the
,Chinese Communists might review their positions if they were con-
vinced that the US sincerely inter.ded to avoid exerting pressure
Pros pe.~ t 1ve s NA O. Some strengthening ~f
the still errbxyoni a North. Atlantic Treaty Organization appears in
prospect as a resul't' of the widespread desire, both public and at
governmental levee..., for greater Western unity in face of im,-reased
Soviet aggressiveness. UK. Foreign Minister Bevin, for example.
feels that immediate consideration should be given to creating a
more effective and coordinated organization and to giving it more
vitality:. Most European countries will strongly favor any
strengthening of t(ie NATO as a means both of committing the US
more fully to supr art. of Western Europe and of assuring the con-
tinuation of US m:.,.1itary and perhaps also economic aid,
Apparently ire rend w .ii. be 4uward use of the NATO ate the
fo:,a1 point for s iGressiiig the _-1,ase inter-relationship within the
Atlantic Communit',r and its common stand in the cold war, The
sphere of NATO :activities would be expanded from primarily mill-
4.
ary to politics.. and eeonor3,ic as well, as provided for in
Article 2. of th(: NAT. The high level NAT Council, composes as
It is of the foreign ministers, will probably be used increasing-
ly as a forum fir coordination of Western cold war policies,
while new bodies may be created within the NATO t.-) deal with com-
mon problems. In this . onn.ection Dutch and French of:'ieia:ls have
shown interes In c-eating a new NATO economic agency after 1952,
perhaps as a su~:eessor to the OEE`,.
eswr tion of x tie ti tions likely. Nc t.wl .a1-
standing the recer i. Jordan _,a ;,net flare-up touched off by the
King's of ford; to or,wlude a non-aggression pact with. Isrrel,
negotiations have been only suspended not broken off. A duilah
has expressed his dc:?l,ei=rtnatlon to resume them after the April
elections in J ordari., These elections will Increase the : epresenta.w
t ion of the Pa les t inia z Arabs in the government, however, and in
'view of the strong feelings of this group, are likely to add, if
anything, to the King as difficulties in accomplishing h1s objective.
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3t iunist"peace" cam-pai on seeL' s rn ss support atyy Stockholm
ed s . The Third Wend congress of 'ea e Partisans in Si,o ~k-
=6~ LO 16-19 March will afford the movement a major opportunity
exploit its strategy of seeking to a:ign the Western peoples
i.nst their flwarmongering'! Bayern ne ~t : ,, The ^-hoice of Swadpn
= the meeting apparently ?eflects the Peace Partisans' hope
.hat they may find in this tradit3.onal1v neutral country a mass
Junpor' which other European countries have withheld. By holding
ahe congress immediately prior to toe fl..rst MDAP shipments, they
will also be in a uositi.on to eon :entry .e the scattered Communist
re in one broadside against Western defense arrangements.
The recent rebuff to the F1artisans five-point "peace prograull
the Belgian and Dutch Parliaments and, the US Congress will not
deter them from aggressive promotion of this program at Stockholm,
even if the French and Italian earl Laments should follow suit7
this rebuff will Inevitably be interpreted as furthe-0 proof of
the "undemocratic" character of P-ovarnme nts that oppose the popular
will for peace? The integri.l connection between t1 is Congress anc
Soviet objectives is reflected i.n:(1) the compression of the five;
point program into a demand for "immediate reduction of military
budgets and strength of the Armed F`--)rce" and "prohibition of the
atomic weapon"; (2) the selection of prominent atomic physicists
to head the Fren &L, Belgian and UK deleF ations; and (3) the ixn
portant role assigned to the .WF"TU S cre'~'.ary General, a key figure
in the Communist anti =MUAP campaign:. A-!.though the USSR can hard-
ly expect the Stockholm meeting to resu:-. In any direct East-West
peace talks a, the timing of this new "peace congress" suggest that
it represents a major Communist effort ":,o capitalize on European
war-weariness and to put the US on the c:iefensive, propaganda-wise,
by highlighting its rejection of tha latest Communist "peace
program."
Asian and Colonial Powers at ,>dds over ILO Asian office.
Early formation of an ILA Asian Advis?ar y Committee, essential to
effective ILO participation in -echnica" aid for Asian countries
is being impeded by disagreement be t reeri India and Australia over
the national membership to be permitted in this body. India feel:
that the Committee's members should be drawn exclusively from the
Asian members of the ILO, while Australia. with UK backing, advo-
cates membership from all the countries represented at the recent
ILO Asian Regional Conference in Ceylon , Since this dispute
centers over the right of the Colonial Powers to participate in an.
Asian regional organization., a right which India is reluctant to
oncede, its solution will rot "be a ;:o s' t;nd may plague the 11.0 for
some time.
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