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...huge red-and-gold concert hall of Paris' Palais de Chaillot last week, the International Cooperative Alliance, central body of the world's cooperative societies, opened its 19th congress. No sooner did the meeting get under way than lean, dark-haired Andrei Timofeev, leader of the 30-member Soviet delegation, jumped to his feet and put in motion a Russian plan aimed at seizing control of the world cooperative organization...
...Timofeev's method was simple. He tried to shoehorn the cooperative societies in Poland, Hungary, Albania and East Germany into the international alliance. The votes of regional cooperatives and Communist collectives (each would get one to ten votes, according to membership) in the satellite countries would be a decisive step toward eventual control of the I.C.A. But leaders of the cooperatives in the West were ready for the assault. To be admitted to I.C.A. membership, a cooperative must follow certain principles laid down by the world organization. One of these is that a cooperative society must determine...
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