The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-22

WAAALC oAdtSAJ dAAO the opium trade, but about the only active survivors of the League mechanisms for dealing with econo- mic or humanitarian problems were certain statistics gathering agencies and the International Labor Organ ization.
 In Chapter TX of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals provision is made for the United Nations organization to go into the field of international economic and social cooperation on a much broader basis. This would be done through an Economic and So- cial Council-a subsidiary of the General Assembly. The General As- sembly would have the power to elect IS countries whose representa- tiveS would sit on this Economic and Social Council for three-year terms. The number was limited to IS to create a workable body. Each coun- try would have one vote and deci- sions would be by simple majority. ECONOMIC COUNCIL WOULD ONLY RECOMMEND
 Decisions of the Economic and Social Council would not become laws regulating international com- merce, immigration and emigration, or sanitary, labor and living condi- tions in any country. All the Econ omiS and Social Council would be empowered to do is to recommend the coordination of activities of secialized agencies, or, when called upon, to provide information to the Security Council on international economic conditions.
 In spite of this limitation on its powers, the Economic and Social Council would be powerful and in- fluential body. It would elect its own president and make its own rules of procedure. Then it would set up various commissions of experts-one to deal with economic questions, an- other for education, and so on.
 The many new and existing inde- pendent international economic and social agencies dealing with partic- ular problems would participate in the deliberations of their appropri- ate commissions. The United Ma tions Relief and Rehabilitation Ad- ministration and the International Labor Organization, for instance, would come under the social and humanitarian commission. The United Nations Food and Agricul- tural Organization set up at Hot Springs, the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank discussed at Breton Woods, Civil Aviation, etc.
 ALL THE LOOSE ENDS
 WOULD BE TIED IN
 Under this broad plan all the loose ends of international trade and economic relations would for the first time be brought together for study and ordination.
 The Economic and Social Council would not exactly be boss over all the independent regulatory agencies set up by agreements between two or more nations. But it is proposed that this Economic and Social Coun- cil be given the power to review the budgets of all such agencies, and where their activities overlap, recommend to the agencies or the General Assembly that their work be co-ordinated.
 Any recommendations of the Economic and Social Council would go - either directly or through the General Assembly = to the sover- eign nations for their approval be- fore they could be put into effect.
 The important point, just as with the entire United Nations organiza- tion, is that this is a beginning. For the first time it is proposed to create body which can look at the whole world, see what goes on in commerce labor and living conditions, then recommend what can be done to keep nations from hurting each other or going to war.