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Committee Two: Economics & Finance (UNRRA, ECOSOC report on devastated areas). Chairman: Poland's Waclaw Konderski...
...structures," seven times urged "peaceful competition" between different social systems. At length, and almost pleadingly, he spoke of Russia's devastation. He even displayed sparks of humor; he said, of the World Federation of Trade Unions: "Is it proper that it has ... the same terms of representation on ECOSOC as ... the National Association of Dried Fruits Retailers?" His only concrete proposal was immediate general disarmament...
...Danube to the Danubian people," cried Yugoslavia's Krasovec, with a strident isolationism reminiscent of U.S. Midwest Senators in 1915. Russia's Nikolai Feonov generalized the anti-trade point into a principle in his criticism of an ECOSOC report calling for the economic coordination of Europe. He found that it "tends to favor the still greater development of highly developed countries." He presaged Molotov's warning that free trade destroyed the independence of weaker countries, adding: "I, for instance, believe that bilateral agreements are for the time being the best...
Nevertheless, other delegates to the 18-nation Economic & Social Council (called ECOSOC* for short) found Feonov an easier man to deal with than such wolf-eating lambs as Molotov, Vishinsky and Gromyko. Feonov actually promoted shirtsleeved sessions in smoke-filled hotel rooms in an effort to break impasses on the council floor. But he could not break the bonds of Russian policy...
Winding up its third meeting last week at Lake Success, ECOSOC had a hatful of recommendations for the General Assembly, which convenes on Oct. 23. Mostly they concerned such matters as world health, narcotics control, an International Refugees Organization. Russian intransigence blocked a U.S.-favored proposal for a central commission to coordinate Europe's economy; but a 450-page report was drafted on recovery in devastated areas. Russia blocked an attempted short-term solution of the Danube River problem. When the U.S. proposed a Vienna conference on the Danube question in November, Russia said that the Danube countries would...