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Economic and Social Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The Fourth Session of the Economic and Social Council, which met at Lake Success from February 28 to March 29, 1947, considered matters which were mainly substantive in character, most of its organizational work having been completed at the third session. Questions discussed ranged from urgent short-term problems, such as the reconstruction of devastated areas, to those of a long-range nature such as world freedom of information and an international bill of rights.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. The United Nations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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References

1 Document E/P.V. 51.

2 Document E/431.

3 International Organization, I, p. 61

4 Documents E/255 and E/270.

5 Document E/CN.10/1. The final resolution was based on a United States draft resolution, originally introduced in the Economic and Employment Commission (Document E/CN.1/26.)

6 Document E/405.

7 Document E/407.

8 Document E/P.V. 80.

9 Document E/411; see also Document E/P.V.83.

10 See International Organization, I, p. 60,65.

11 Document E/P.V.82.

12 Document E/403.

13 Ibid.

14 Ibid.

15 Document E/423.

16 Document E/403.

17 Document E/408.

18 Ibid.

19 Ibid.

20 Document E/409.

21 Document E/400.

22 Document E/P.V. 82.

23 United Nations Press Release ECOSOC/74, March 29, 1947.

24 Document E/P.V. 82.

25 Document E/412.

26 United Nations Press Release ECOSOC/74, March 29, 1947.

27 Document E/412.

28 Ibid.

29 Document E/401.

30 Document E/424.

31 Document E/426.

32 Document E/P.V. 78.

33 Reports received during the war dropped from 1,547 from 164 countries and territories in 1937 to a low of 1,013 from 125 countries and territories in 1942. Although markedly on the increase in 1946, full information was still lacking, particularly from countries of East and Southeast Europe, from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Nicaragua, with no reports from Peru — one of the largest exporters of crude cocaine in the world — in 1945 or 1946. Permanent Central Opium Board, Report on the Work of the Board, October 21, 1946.

34 Although the Permanent Central Opium Board had taken this matter up in 1945 and 1946, no information had been transmitted from the Allied Control Authority in Berlin, although British, American, and French Zone commanders had sent some information. Ibid.

35 Ibid.

36 For a discussion of the general problem of official representatives on international bodies see the article by A. Loveday, “An Unfortunate Decision,” this issue, p. 279.

37 Document E/P.V. 82.

38 Document E/408.

39 For definition of categories, see International Organization I, p. 113. For list of organizations granted consultative status, see United Nations Weekly Bulletin, II, p. 361, or Document E/370.

40 Document E/321.

41 See International Organization, I, p. 222.

42 Document E/298.