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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1947.

GENEVA TODAY

N

By SYDNEY REDWOOD

This au

and

war,

Red

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"Bowler halted? Certainly hot, dear boy! Freed for Industry."

FACTS

TOW that Mr Trygve Lic It was inevitable that in the im- 1.1.0.. deriving its authority and and the reluctance of individuals to former constitution from Part XIII of the be released. Mr Trygve Lle has met has formally announced niedlute postwar years the that the former head- members of the League of Nations Treaty of Versailles, had a special with extraordinary difficulties in als

position via-a-vis the League of Nn- search for recruits, an should form the most

tions. quarters of the League of Na- Secretariat

readily avaliable nucleus of the new

There are other practical diffeu)- It is true that the I.L.O. dopended tes peculiar to the postwar years tions is to fill the secondary, International elvii service. When the

but which are encountered oven in a but important, role of European Prepamtory Commission and, later, on the Lengun for its budget; Office of the United Nations, the first General Assembly of the in other respects it exercised almost country like Switzerland, which has Geneva has returned to some United Nations, met in London. It complete autonomy in the sphere of suffered so little from the impact of. International conferences need extent to its glory of the was mainly former officials of the social, industrial and labour affairs,

on its system of tripartite housing not only so that they can League, begged or borrowed from based thirties.

their wartime jobs, who made the representation by governments, en meet, but so that they can eat and

sleep. The accredited representa- Mr Lie's plan seems to be machinery work. Many of them ployers, and workers.

91 Inter mainly to concentrate United went to New York when the United tonomy enablen the I.L.Q. to survive ilves of the United Kingdom Govern

the war and the liquidation of the ment to the Conference Nations economic and technical

League of Nations,

to emerge as national Trade and Full Employme

number

aver 200. Over 200 work at the European Office.

■ specialised agency with defined beds have had to be provided for that relations with the Economie months Within the last few

ono delegation alone, and Geneva, Social Council of the United Nations. like many another city, in short of there have met, and in somic

But there is already discernible hotel and other accommodation. cases are stiil meeting, such

The Tho

International

Cross, an overlapping of functions,

Pasicurisation is a process named bodies as the Economic Com-

situation is not made easier by the which expanded greatly during the war to handle the tremendous

for Louis Pasteur, French solentist, mission for Europe, the Pre-

fact that although the main body problems of world war, took over by which milk is heated to not lower paratory Commission on Inter-

of the I.LO.'s staff is now in Geneva, several Geneva hotels, and although than 142 degrees for not less than 30 national Trade and Full Em-

there remains a considerable staff these, or most of them, have now minutes, and then promptly cooled to In Montreal, where the organisation been released they are not yet at 50 degrees or lower to destroy any ployment, a conference of Ex-

had its wartime headquarters, and for occupation. Then during the harmful bacteria that may be pre- perts on Passports and Frontier

an office has had to be opened at Formalities, and the Propara-

Lake Success, where the liaison tory Committee of the Inter-

necessary between the three points can be maintained. national Refugee Organisation, The International Labour Or ganisation has had a conference of coal-producing countries, as well as its annual International · international confer- Labour Conference in Geneva for ences have been held. the first time since before the

in Geneva, and the

War.

city is destined to play an increasingly bigger role in the future.

The former home of the League of Nations assumes now import- ance as the European hoadquarters of the United Nations. Dur- ing this summor, many

ILO. officials anticipate that, in duc course, when the permanent Manhattan quarters of the UN, are completed, what is now the Secre- tariat of the 1.L.O. will be absorbed as a department of social affairs at Lake Success, thus bringing its work into closer relationship with the Economic and Social Council.

RADIO STATION ·

pation many French families

over the frontier, took apart ments in Geneva, and so far show lttle sign of returning to their native

land.

100 MILES TO WORK

THE consequence of this

jor

sent, without affecting flavour and

food value.

·

Captive chimpanzees, given sticks or poles, soon devise a crude form of pole vaulting.

Peach trees were cultivated

by

Abraham Lincoln onca patented a is felt device for "buoying vessels over mainly by the members of the shonis." Secretarial, who are faced with the Impossiblity of finding homes themselves and their families; but Chinese farmers and written about the hotel situation has confronted by their poets 2,000 years before delegates and the United Nations they were grown in the West, with a serious problem indeed.

Russla has the largest peat re- with 65,000 Many delegates with experience nt sources in the world HE new Information Centre of the the United Nations Gerreral Assembly square miles. Canada is second with T

about 37,000 oqifare miles. future United Nations has

at Lake Success of travelling some-. which is more clearly to be fore times 100 miles a day to and from seen, and horizons almost as wide their work are beginning to feel that an area of only 30 square miles.

The Republic of San Marino has na those

of the European centre, work on international conferences is

becoming too nomadic for their An automatic flight recorder has such information centres. They tastes. Some of them feel that been perfected which can is drawn Nations headquarters were establish- Present plans provide for a series

Secretary-General for the

Consequently the city's hotels have been once more filled with delogates. Not, it is true, the Briand, the Titulescus, or the Cecils of the League of Nations uays. The type of delegates attracted by the work being done at Geneva now

THE offices in

af

there were almost 3,000 members of

of the

former

11

available to the

*

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

WHEN I was Provost's Au- Prawn to King's fifth

League of Nations Palace needed there. They are nearly 10 is the fact that, as the European ditor to the Scottish Coun-

in the Pare Ariana are

a

detect

to ac-

servo

more from the Schools of Eco ed there; but soon conditions at the will all work directly under the however eager the world may be for possible dangerous aeroplane or pilot nomics and the Boards of Trade new site changed. Rapid local re- Assistant

is singularly ill-equipped to provide eldents. them with satisfactory working con- of the world than from the cruitment produced a situation in Information at Lake Success, Mr the frults of their labours, the world tendencies before they lead

Children are the most frequent Foreign Offices and Embassies, which, at the last General Assembly, Benjamin Cohen.

For a variety of reasons, however, ditions, that the wisest course may

victims of dre, with children under Genova will have a special impor- be to hasten slowly, and that plan con- the Secretariat at Lake Success.

should come before inter-five accounting for 20 percent of all -So far as Geneva is

One of these is the transfer ning When the League of Nations tance. cerned, the hoteliers, and es.

former League of Nations national conferences as well as after fire fatalities.

the them. to Palace at Geneva was built it was radio-transmitting station to

To that extent the pattern which In the United States 900 nadlo pecially their staffs, seem welcome this influx. And not designed for a staff of 800. So it is United Nations. Although radio lis

Geneva teners throughout the world have is emerging in Geneva would seem broadcasting stations daily only from a business point of clear that those view; there is an evident plea- meints who are with the United been able to hear the proceedings at to be progress in the right direction. more than 50,000,000 receiving sets. Laito Success at their firesides, these sura and pride in the preserva- Nations must now be in a minority, radio transmissions have been over

rystems made tion of the tradition of Geneva and a very small minority. Some of as an international city.

them have now returned to Geneva, United Nations. partly for old times' sake, partly

Control of the only United Nations CHICKEN AND EGG

because they prefer the European to radio station is one of the reasons partly for the special importance of the the American way of life, the splendid because

ure Geneva Information Centre, Another their qualifications

LEADING arilele in a provincial Office of the United Nations Genova once years older than when they left there; will be the scene of sufficient. United

paper says: "We are but prawns more occupied by international some of them, through an excess of Nations activity to make it worth cil of Industry we started

newspapers to maintain scheme for Cat Clinics where on the chessboard of the National back," have

while for endowed civil servants, many of them "looking

ent correspondents there, cor- people could leave their cats to like." I have no hesitation in tak ing that superfluous and giving it and the League with a permanent

at the same time recruited in great haste, for Mr Geneva

they respondents specialising in Interna-be looked after by cat guardiáns. back to the pure old-world bon

tional affairs. This is an important 11 didn't work, because the owners pointing out, Lie has a constant chicken-and- romance and a glamour that

many European

made such a fuss about the cats homie, to my friend Mr Frank which comes never possessed; some of them sigh consideration for egg problem

against the proposal to establish the food, bedding, recreation and so on. Morley, that the introduction of ash editors. It was one of the arguments first, the convening of badly vainly for the good old days.

has been- that our scheme I art

on to the chessboard would enliven needed international confer-

But' all of them claim, and with Headquarters of the United Nations brought up again by the Hotel and the game considerably.

House Acrociation, ences, or the recruiting of the some justice, that if the League of in the United States that newspapers Boarding

required to organise Nations "falled" in anything it cer- might and it difficult, indeed which I was secretary in 1938. In stalfs

MAN who was standing quietly them?

tainly did not fall in the technical possible, to maintain correspondents return for crockery. landladies and

hotel managers are offering to house outside Lord's the other day was cats in outhouses. So Tibbins's

told by a pol.ceman that the gates The great network of organisa-cals Secretariat evolved techniques of The Secretary-General of the emiciency of Its staff. The League across the Atlantle.

were open and he could go in for ay ny depend help to

taking fancy to a complete the match. "I'm waiting for the United Nations has many prob- administration and conference or- tions and agencies which

new build up the structure of the rapidly ty useless little how labelled-Sou-1048 season. said the ma

"What lems which did not bother his ganisation with which the

developing United Nations cicarly venir

of Bobblecombe-on-Sea of on earth" sald the policeman, predecessor at the League of methods of Lake Success compare

calls for some central information which I was Mavor in 1934.

or words to that

"Why that's of unfavourably.

Gervice. Nations, and not the least

next year," not only at the Headquarters of the United Nations, where their

"that's why I came early. I want his preoccupations is the fact

Frodnose: I find it dimcult to un to see how many people will fall in functions and purposes are pernups that he is busy recruiting not

what all this is behind me and wait for a year." best understood, but at central points derstand exactly the first, but the second inter-

such as Geneva, where to many they about, national civil service. And go there is disappointinent and

are represented by groups of initials Myself: That is because you are Pillow filled with soup

which few can nowhere is this difficulty more disillusionment that this experience

rapidly looking for some hidden meaning in WHY not sweep your face with a it, Anyhow, think how difficult 1 carpet-razor, or, by turning the clearly thrown into relief than and knowledge should be discarded,

accurately attach a name.

must find it to understand. You instrument Inside out, shave the the very or so it seems, simply for the sake where in Geneva,

MÁNY

only read it. I have to write it. INITIALS

carpet with of change; and the situation is not

face-sweeper? No

Only. Prodnose; But does that paragraph blade, no brush, no soap, buildings in which the officials helped by the nssiduity with which work are steeped in the tradi- the newcomers sweep clean, with all

about the cat scheme meus any thing that looks like a moth-proot the determination appropriate

teapot with a curling spaut made of thing in particular? tions of the League.

wobbing, and a highly polished, fish- new brooms. There is nothing more

finish handie.

:

OLD AND YOUNG

to

im-

and

to MOST of these organisations have a

tialson

representative

mid

50

in the

0015

In his recruitment for the infuciaiing to the young than the Geneva building, and the caller who Geneva conferences Mr. Lie sweet superiorily of age and ex- strays into one corridor finds himself had to throw young and old perience, and nothing more aggravat in a bewilderment of initialled together, and there is a natural ing to the old than the ignoring of bearing such insignia as

such hard-won experience by those WHO, FAO, ICAO, ILO, IRO, ECO,

UNESCO, but dangerous tendency for the who follow them.

on. Generally cach of these organisations has its latter to look back nostalgically Senior o elals at the United

own public relations service at its on the "good old League days", Nations are very conscious of this

own Headquarters, but the purpose while the former, clearly rather underlying rivalry, which exists

of these services is to explain the bewildered by their first in mainly In the middle ranks. They

achievements

their of

respectivn that the existence of two cursions into what is a highly realise

erhools of thought,

whose

slogans. developed technique, seem de-

Reference was made.carlier to the termined that at all costs no are either "It must be right because

Kague" problem of which comes first-the It was done this way in the League", old League methods shall or "It must be wrong because it was conference or the staff to work it, blemish the purity of the now done that way in the League," can and here the Secretary-General nos met with difficulties which to some only do harm to the Secretariat; and United Nations systems.

how extent are peculiar to the immediate

crganisations.

It is not generally apprecational postwar years. The official needed

The problem exists to some much the success of

for an internathanal elvil service must extent at Lake Success; it is meetings depends on the emciency,

to-operation, and loyalty of

the for an

possess many of the qualities which more apparent at the former officials who organise them.

go to make up the finest type of homo of the League of Nations, It is expected that the European national civil servant to help in the and it will have to be solved on office will develop, mainly, but not national struggle towards recovery, both sides of the Atlantic if entirely, as pri outpost ot the And, as is natural, many men and women are reluctant to leave their the essential machinery for in- Economie and Social Caunell

Where precisely the International national service until their 'countries' ternational co-operation is to

Labour Organisation - fits into

the needs.

mei. Between the run smoothly.

picture remains to be seen. The reluctance of governments to release,

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Remember (9)

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