activities, demography, human rights, narcotic drugs, and public health. This department is headed by Assistant Secretary-General Henri Laugier (French). The Department for Trusteeship and Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories is responsible for serving the Trusteeship Council with respect to all its functions under the trusteeship system, the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly, the Special Committee on Information Transmitted under Article 73 (e) of the Charter and any special committee concerning matters of trusteeship information from non-self-governing territories. It supplies other organs of the United Nations, specialized agencies, and departments of the Secretariat with information concerning trust territories, non-self-governing territories, and nonsecurity aspects of strategic areas, and provides background material, working papers, and other documents for the General Assembly. The Department is headed by Assistant Secretary-General Victor Hoo (Chinese). Top Ranking Director is Ralph J. Bunche (U. S.), with Director Wilfred Benson (British) in charge of the Division of Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories. The Department of Public Information advises the Secretary-General on all phases of information policy and carries out the information program of the United Nations; develops facilities and services for press, radio, film, and other information media; and initiates and develops information activities to supplement the services of existing agencies on as wide a geographic basis as possible. It is headed by Assistant Secretary-General Benjamin Cohen (Chilean). Mr. Cohen is assisted by Top Ranking Director Tor Gjesdal (Norwegian). The Legal Department advises the Secretariat and other organs of the United Nations on legal and constitutional questions, promotes the progressive development of international law and its codification, and maintains liaison with the International Court of Justice. It is headed by Assistant Secretary-General Ivan Kerno (Czechoslovak). The Top Ranking Director in the Department is A. H. Feller (U. S.). The Conference and General Services Department makes arrangements for servicing meetings of the General Assembly, the Councils, the commissions, subcommissions, and committees, and special conferences held under the auspices of the United Nations. It provides the administrative channel for communications between the headquarters' organization and the European office. It is headed by Assistant Secretary-General Shamaldharee Lall (Indian), who is assisted by Top Ranking Director David Vaughan (U. S.). The Department of Administrative and Financial Services plans and executes the budgetary, personnel, and fiscal program of the United Nations; keeps the Secretary-General informed on problems and developments in these fields which require his attention; provides staff assistance to the Secretary-General and to the Assistant Secretaries-General in administrative and organizational planning; provides data required by the General Assembly, Councils, and committees with respect to administrative, financial, and budgetary questions; advises the Secretary-General on proposed programs of the organization prior to their adoption with respect to their personnel and financial implications; arranges with members for payment of their contributions; directs the activities of the headquarters planning office; and carries out such other functions as the Secretary-General may assign. This Department is headed by Assistant Secretary-General Byron Price (U. S.); he is assisted by two Top Ranking Directors, Hans Anderson (Danish), Director of Finance, and Director of Personnel Georges Palthey (French). In the Technical Assistance Administration are centralized the operational aspects of the various programs of the United Nations of a technical-assistance character. It assumes responsibility for organization of composite missions to countries requesting technical assistance, furnishing individual advisers to governments, organization of fellowship and scholarship programs, seminars and training institutions, demonstration centers, etc. Research, studies, and formulation of general policies related to the development of underdeveloped countries continue to be performed in the Departments of Economic Affairs and of Social Affairs. This office is under the direction of a Director General, Hugh L. Keenleyside (Canadian). His deputy is G. Martinez-Cabanas (Mexican). The United Nations office at Geneva is organized as follows: (a) a general secretariat to provide conference services and facilities for meetings held at Geneva both of the United Nations and of specialized agencies, to provide office accommodation and/or other services for the secretariats and specialized agencies in Geneva, to maintain United Nations properties (former League of Nations property), to gather and disseminate information regarding United Nations activities at Geneva, together with the allied task of disseminating information regarding activities at New York, and to direct the administrative and financial work relating to these activities and those that follow; (b) the secretariat of the Economic Commission for Europe; (c) the secretariat of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees; (d) the secretariat of the Permanent Central Opium Board and Drug Supervisory Body. The work of the general secretariat is directed by Wlodimierz Moderow (Polish). The Economic Commission for Europe is headed by Executive Secretary Gunnar Myrdal (Swedish). The High Commissioner for Refugees is Dr. G. J. van Heuven Goedhart (Netherlands). Arthur Felkin (United Kingdom) is the Secretary of the Permanent Central Opium Board. In addition to these main offices the Secretary-General has set up small field offices to service the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA), and the 15 information centers required by the Department of Public Information to carry out its responsibility for insuring that peoples in all parts of the world receive full information about the United Nations. The chief officials are as follows: REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMISSIONS (Other than ECE, mentioned above) ECAFE: P. S. Lokanathan (Indian), Executive Secretary Information Centers Belgrade: Vacant Buenos Aires: Enrique Loudet (Argentine) Cairo: S. Rahat Bokhari (Pakistani) New Delhi: Boleslaw Leitgeber (Polish) Rio de Janeiro: Paul Vanorden Shaw (U. S.) Sydney: William M. J. McNamara (Australian) Warsaw: Vacant Washington: Arthur Sweetser (U. S.) In addition to these officers, which are under the direct supervision of the Secretary-General, there is a Military Staff Committee secretariat which is responsible to and serves the Military Staff Committee, a subordinate organ of the Security Council. While the secretariat of this committee is organized as a unit independent of the Secretary-General, a liaison relationship exists in administrative matters, and the expenses for the secretariat of the Military Staff Committee are included in the budget of the United Nations. ADVISORY COMMITTEES The General Assembly exercises control over and gives direction to the administrative processes and financial administration of the Secretariat through its Administrative and Budgetary Committee. In addition, it has created numerous expert bodies, the members of which serve on a continuing basis, to assist the Assembly and the Secretary-General in properly discharging their administrative and financial responsibilities. These include the following: The Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, composed of nine members, to examine the budget of the United Nations and specialized agencies and to assist the Administrative and Budgetary Committee of the General Assembly. The nine members serving in 1950 were Thanassis Aghnides (Greek), Andre Ganem (French), William O. Hall (U. S.), C. L. Hsia (Chinese), V. Kabushko (Soviet), Olyntho P. Machado (Brazilian), Sir William Matthews (British), Jan Papanek (Czech), R. Asha (Syrian), and N. Sundaresan (Indian). The Committee on Contributions, consisting of 10 members, to advise the General Assembly concerning the apportionment of expenses of the United Nations among members. The members are Rafik Asha (Syrian), A. Nass (Venezuelan), H. Campion (British), René Charron (French), P. M. Chernyshev (Soviet), Seymour Jacklin (South African), Kan Lee (Chinese), S. McKee Rosen (Mexican), Mitchell W. Sharp (Canadian), M. Z. N. Witteveen (Dutch). The Administrative Tribunal, composed of seven members, to hear and pass judgment upon applications alleging nonobservance of contracts of employment or terms of appointment of staff members of the Secretariat of the United Nations. The seven members, only three of whom sit in a particular case, are Mme. Paul Bastid (French), Sir Sydney Caine (British), Lt. Gen. His Highness Maharaja Jam Shri Digvijayasinhji Sahib of Nawanagen (Indian), Roland Andrews Egger (U. S.), Omar Loutfi (Egyptian), Emilio N. Oribe (Uruguayan), and Vladimir Outrata (Czechoslovak). The Board of Auditors, to audit the accounts of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and such specialized agencies as may request its services. It is composed of three members serving for 3 years as follows: Auditor-General of Canada, Auditor-General of Colombia, Auditor-General of Denmark. The Investments Committee, to advise the Secretary-General concerning the investment of the assets of the Pension Fund. It is composed as follows: Ivar Rooth (Swedish), Leslie R. Rounds (U. S.), and Jacques Rueff (French). The Staff Pension Committee, to administer the Joint Staff Pension Fund. It is composed of three members elected by the General Assembly, three members appointed by the Secretary-General, and three elected by the participants. The members and alternates elected by the fourth session of the General Assembly are R. T. Cristobal (Philippine), Nikolai I. Klimov (Soviet), and E. de HolteCastello (Colombian), members; and Carol C. Laise (U. S.), A. Nass (Venezuelan), and P. Ordonneau (French), alternates. The members newly designated by the staff participants and the Secretary-General are as follows: The International Labor Organization consists of (1) the General Conference of the organization, which generally meets annually and is composed of worker, employer, and governmental delegates from each member country; (2) the Governing Body, which meets three times a year and is composed of the representatives of 16 governments and 8 representatives each of the worker and employer groups of the General Conference; and (3) the International Labor Office, which is the secretariat of the organization. The 1950 gross assessment budget of ILO was $5,983,526, of which the United States share was $1,269,867 or 22 percent. ILO celebrates its thirty-first anniversary this year. It is a world center for all forms of information and statistics related to labor. It has adopted over 90 international conventions promoting labor and social welfare, which have received about 1,200 ratifications. It is expanding its technical-assistance program so as to assist countries to deal with employment and unemployment problems, to prepare the way for migration from surplus-labor areas to underpopulated areas, to establish and strengthen national employment services with the object of using available manpower most efficiently and where needed, and to increase labor skills and productivity through vocational training and guidance programs, apprenticeship programs, and other industrial training programs. The structure and administration of ILO make it uniquely effective because labor and management participate directly with governments not only in the work of the organization but also in its administration and in its organizational structure. 2. Food and Agriculture Organization Temporary Headquarters: Washington, D.C. (Until May 1951) Director General: Norris E. Dodd, United States Deputy Director General: Sir Herbert Broadley, OBE, United Kingdom |