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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next problem is to find another $12.5 million to expand his newsprint-making. He thinks that the future of the economically backward South lies in such new industries. Says he: "Sweden plants timber on land that costs $100 an acre [v. Texas timberland costing $75 an acre], and they do it economically. But that land won't grow a third of the timber we can grow here in the South...
...international's 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...
...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...
President Truman's Point Four, which provides for aid to backward parts of the world, can be carried too far, John Fletcher-Cooke, British delegate to the United Nations, said at last night's Dunster Forum on "The Problem of the Emergent Peoples...
...assume that all people want the same "high standard of living" and "gadget civilization" that this country does, we will reduce the benefit that backward areas can get from technical and educational improvements under the plan, the British colonial expert added...