Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Jessup was sticking to his decision to leave Government service next March. His notice followed by a week the resignation of Policy Planner George ("Mr. X") Kennan, who will leave in June after spending the most of the next six months reviewing U.S. policy in Latin America and Africa. Like Kennan, Jessup yearned for the quiet of academic life. He reckoned he was just about eleven months behind schedule in returning to the Hamilton Fish Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia where, a scholarly friend explained, he had some "grinding" thinking...
...Prime Minister," and there was even talk that General Revers would get a new job, probably with Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau. To succeed Revers as chief of staff, Bidault picked General Clement Blanc, a logistics expert who had directed the re-equipment of Free French forces in Africa with U.S. materials, and had served as General de Lattre de Tassigny's No. 2 man at Western Union headquarters. The French press has called General Blanc the "worst-tempered man in the French army." Able Soldier Blanc also seemed to have another qualification that France needed: he was widely...
...major concern would be "organizing the unorganized on a world basis, reorganizing the disorganized." From the Brussels headquarters organizers will go out to help infant labor movements in industrially backward countries -e.g., Korea and India. Representatives will be sent to watch labor conditions in the colonial areas of Africa. In Western Europe, I.C.F.T.U. will concentrate on the struggle to free labor unions from crippling Red infiltration...
...serious has been the opposition of the colonial powers to continuance of the 16-member committee which analyzes the social and economic data from dependent areas. The life of the group was recently extended three years by a vote of 41 to 4, with Britain, France, Belgium, and South Africa in the minority. Britain complained that information was being used by Russia for propaganda purposes, and that the committee had been given an "illegal" assignment to study political questions. The British also felt that reports should be made on all backward areas, self-governing as well as dependent...
...Italian colonies in Africa, coming under the second category, have been the focus of argument at this session of the General Assembly. The peace treaty with Italy provided that if the Big Four disagreed on the disposition of her colonies, the dispute should go to the U.N. Russia wanted U.N. trusteeship for Libya, Eritrea, and Somaliland; the Western Allies wanted them administered by a single nation. The whole problem went to the General Assembly...