The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-02-26
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

At the international conference OF
the International Labor Organization
in New York last FAN, the delegates
representing CZechoslovallia, Greece,
Poland and YugoSlavia unanimously
adopted a joint declaration stating
their position with regard to the pres
ent war and reaffirming the need for
close cooperation among the four coun-
tries. They declared:
I'VE hope that the end of this war,
which was forced upon us, will save a
hundred million inhabitants of Central
Europe and of the Balkans from their
present state of wretchedneSs by as
suring them the possibility of stable
employment, guaranteed by reconstruc
tiOn and by the development of their
industries, agriculture and merchant
marine, and that those peoples will be
included within the sphere of interna-
tional exchanges of goods and services.
special attention goes to the masses
of the peasant population and to their
social and economic standards, because
il is on those elements that peace and
security in that region depend 1t is in
this spirit that our present joint decla-
ration has been conceived, and it is in
| this same spirit of frank and friendly
collaboration that we conceive the part
| to be played by our countries in the
reconstruction of a new Europe, en-
joying Il stable peace with freedom and
prosperity"
The foregoing declaration was sign
| ed by the four delegations which We're
| headed by Jan Masaryk, Czechoslo-
yaIia: Aristide Dimitratos, Greece ::
Jan Stanczyk, Poland, and Sava n.
| kosanoyich IugoSlavia.
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The declaration served as the ideO-
| logical basis in the formation of a
common organization which has sub
| SeQUently been set up to study the
| problems of postwar reconstruction
and to plan for the economic, social,
and cultural future of the four ma
| tiOnS. The new organization is particu-
| larly important because it may well
| become the nucleus for a larger Organi-
ZatiOn of the nations of Eastern Central
Europe, based on the principles of CO.
operation and the interdependence of
nation and growing out of Il community
of purpose and action. Thus it may be
| regarded rs Il significant step towards
| Il future Eastern Central European
| Federation.
The governments of the four coun-
trieS-aIl victims of NaZi aggression
and brutality-have come to realize
| the similarity OF the economic, social,
and cultural conditions prevailing in
their respective nations They recog-
nize that they are facing the same
problems and must seek for common
solutions The close political collabor-
alton between the Polish and CZecho-
Slovaliian Governments in Exile is a
we'll known fact Similar friendly col
| Iabaoration has been developed recently
between Greece and YugoSIaya.
1t was in this spirit of recognition
Of common problems and of the need
for Joint action that the Central and
Eastern European Planning Board was
founded by the four delegations on
Jan. Z. 1912, at the invitation of Jan
Slanczyk, Polish Minister of Labor and
Social Welfare The board Will cooper
ate closely with the international La
Dor OFFICE and will serve as a center
for the Joint action of the four coun
trioS-aIl. il is to be noted, members
of the International Labor Organiza-
tion.
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