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Ninth SessionThe ninth meeting of the Caribbean Commission was held at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, from December 5 to 9 under the chairmanship of Ward M. Canaday (United States). One of the first items to be considered was the Secretary General's report on secretariat activities since the eighth meeting of the Commission. The Secretary-General (Cramer) reported that in addition to servicing the Commission and the Caribbean Research Council, the secretariat had carried out the publications program of the Commission, had handled numerous requests for information and assistance, and had undertaken studies on such subjects as soil erosion, Caribbean industry and the utilization of sugar by-products. The Commission approved appointments to the Caribbean Research Council and its committees on medicine, public health and nutrition, sociology and education, economics and statistics, engineering, and industrial development. It was decided to convene in 1950 a small conference of territorial statistical officers to discuss standardization of methods of reporting trade statistics. A United States paper on "Socio Economic Surveys in the Caribbean Area" which had been submitted at the eighth meeting was considered in the light of governmental comments on the projects proposed, and the Commission agreed to give priority to two projects deemed to be of the most immediate value to the social and economic development of the area: a study of Caribbean employment patterns and the factors affecting industrial productivity, and a study of educational and leadership requirements. Third order of priority was given to a survey of variations in the cost and levels of living in the various Caribbean territories.

At the seventh regular meeting of the Danube Commission in December 1952 it was decided to extend the mandate of the special commission established in July 1952 to examine the Yugoslav proposal for amendment of the rules of procedure and the Statute until the eighth regular meeting. However, despite Yugoslav objections, the report of the special commission was not put on the agenda for the eighth meeting. Also discussed at the seventh meeting were the Yugoslav failure to pay dues for the preceding year, and the action of Yugoslavia in taking over control of the locomotive traction of the Sip Canal. Yugoslavia took the position that it had a right to defend its national interests in the light of previous breach of contract by other Commission members. With Yugoslavia objecting to both nominations, the meeting elected the Rumanian representative as chairman and the Soviet delegate as secretary of the Com-mission, the latter for a term of three years.

At its fourteenth meeting, held in Guadeloupe from May 6 to 10, 1952, the Caribbean Commission reviewed the report of the Conference on Industrial Development which met in February in Puerto Rico, expressed its appreciation of the report, and passed it on, together with the commission's comments, to local and metropolitan governments for study of its 33 recommendations. The commission gave special consideration to the conference recommendation relating to an examination by an expert of the effect of income tax laws and practices on "pioneer industries", instructing the Secretary-General (de Vriendt) to ascertain from the chairman of the United Nations Fiscal Commission or other appropriate international bodies whether the service of an expert on this kind of fiscal problem could be made available. Regarding the recommendation that it should arrange for studies of selected industries, the commission felt that industrialists and industrial organizations concerned, territorial governments and suitable international bodies should be asked to share the expenses of such studies and directed the Secretary-General to investigate possibilities in this respect.

By a notice published as a supplement to the Royal Gazette of July 7, 1949, the government of Trinidad and Tobago extended diplomatic privileges and immunities to the Caribbean Commission and its officials and staff members. On September 22, 1949, Clovis Beauregard, newly appointed Deputy Secretary General of the commission arrived in Port-of-Spain to assume his duties. During the period under review the commission participated in the meeting of the British West Indies Sugar Technologists, held at Antigua from September 27 to October 1, 1949, and announced its acceptance of an invitation to participate in a United Nations meeting of experts on housing in tropical Africa, scheduled for the second half of 1950.

At the thirteenth session of the Caribbean Commission it was announced that agreements had been made between the Technical Cooperation Administration of the United States and the governments of France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom for technical assistance in the field of aided self-help housing, $68,000 being allotted for a two-year period. The commission, at this session, 1) accepted the recommendation that a statement of the radio stations issuing hurricane warnings and a list of frequencies and power output be sent to interested governments at the start of the hurricane season; 2) selected Guadeloupe as the site for the fourteenth session of the commission opening on May 5; 3) agreed that a trade promotion conference should be held, which would include a discussion on the effect of tariffs; 4) agreed on a provisional agenda for the fifth session of the West Indian Conference; and 5) agreed that the fields selected for emphasis in new projects should be limited to agriculture, forestry and fisheries development, industrial development and housing. The commission also adopted the following schedule of conferences for 1952: industrial development, in Puerto Rico in February; fisheries, in Trinidad in March; existing and potential timber trade, in Trinidad in April; Eastern Caribbean Hurricane Subcommission, in Trinidad in June (second meeting); cooperative workshop, in Puerto Rico in July or August; and home economics, in Trinidad in the latter part of the year or early 1953. A proposal that the commission study the problem of providing credit for small farmers and a resolution urging governments to encourage the maximum use and development of natural resources were approved, while the commission urged implementation of a previous resolution relating to freedom of the air.

Agreement to begin a comprehensive survey of industries and industrial potentialities in Caribbean territories of the four member countries was reached in the fourth meeting of the Caribbean Commission which convened on June 23, 1947, at Jamaica, B.W.I., with representatives present from France, the Netherlands, United King-dom and the United States. On the basis of recommendations passed at the 1946 session of the West Indian Conference, the Commission drew up a program of action by which a panel of four experts on industrial affairs (one chosen by each national section) was to act as a committee headed by the Secretary-General of the Commission (Lawrence W. Cramer), and was to submit a report on the present and proposed state of industrial development in the Caribbean area. An adviser was to be appointed to coordinate the work of the experts and to edit the text of the final report. The Commission agreed that the report was to be ready in time for submission to the next session of the West Indian Conference, scheduled for the spring of 1948.

La Commission spéciale de la Croix-Rouge suisse a été composée de M M.:Dr Gustave Kœnig, conseiller national, président;H. Golay, secrétaire général du Bureau international de la Paix, secrétaire;Dr B. Fetscherin, médecin dentiste.Cette Commission, dont le siège est au Bureau international de la paix, à Berne, a été agréée par le médecin-chef de la Croix-Rouge, et se déclare prête à fonctionner.

The sixteenth meeting of the Caribbean Commission was opened in Paramaribo, Surinam, on May 11, 1953; the principal items on the agenda concerned recommendations made by the Fifth West Indian Conference. The Commission endorsed the recommendations of the Preparatory Committee for the Joint Conference on Education and Small-Scale Farming, to be sponsored jointly by the Commission and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; the Preparatory Committee had recommended that a Single conference be held on the two subjects, that these questions be viewed from the point of view of their contribution to community and economic development, that each government in the area be invited to send two delegates, and that the conference be held in Trinidad in October 1954. The Commission agreed to the preparation of a number of research and problem papers for the conference, emphasizing the desirability of obtaining the assistance of UNESCO, the United States Technical Cooperation Administration, and member governments in preparing them. Plans for the conference were coordinated with those of the Sixth West Indian Conference, a principal item on whose agenda was to be the report of the conference on education and small scale farming.

The Caribbean Commission met for its sixth session at San Juan, Puerto Rico, from May 24 to 29, 1948. Among the subjects discussed were tourism, industrial, development, transportation and communications, population movements, water supply, and the establishment of a scientific and technical information service: and a statistical unit to serve research needs on Caribbean topics. The Commission decided to make a six-month survey of all existing research institutions, projects, and personnel in the region, to serve as a basis for a permanent research information service to be maintained by the secretariat.

The notes of protest which the United States, the United Kingdom, and France sent to the Danube Commission governments on November 15, 1949, were answered by the Soviet Union on March 9, 1950, and by Bulgaria on March 28, 1950. Both governments rejected the western protests, the Soviet note commenting that the Danube Commission's Convention of August 18, 1948, eliminated the injuristices of previous international waterways concepts and established the jurisdiction of the riparian states. The note added that the Soviet government would not consider the protests registered by Belgium, Italy and Greece since they were not members of the Danube River Commission under the previous navigational treaty of 1921.

La Commission spéciale des prisonniers de guerre a été constituée à Berlin comme une sous-commission du Comité central. Elle se compose de MM.:Le ministre d'Etat von Studt, vice-président du Comité central, Président;Dr von Biegeleben, ministre plénipotentiaire de Hesse, à Berlin;Boden, ministre plénipotentiaire du Brunswick, à Berlin.Von Brandenstein, ministre plénipotentiaire de Mecklembourg, à Berlin;Cronau, délégué d'Alsace-Lorraine au Conseil fédéral de l'empire;Dr Hallbauer, délégué du royaume de Saxe. au Conseil général de l'empire;Dr D. Kahl. professeur;Dr jur. Klugmann;Dr Paulssen, conseiller d'Etat de Saxe et délégué au Conseil fédéral;Comte de Schœnborn - Wiesentheit, délégué de la Croix-Rouge bavaroise auprès du Commissaire et inspecteur de l'assistance volontaire pendant la guerre.

Par lettre du 10 décembre 1914, la Société du Croissant-Rouge ottoman nous informe que sa Commission spéciale vient d'être constituée comme suit:MM. Mehmed Ali Bey, membre du Comité central, Haïday Bey, »

From May 6 to 10, 1952, the fourteenth meeting of the Caribbean Commission was held in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Prominent in the commission's deliberations were preparations for the fifth session of the West Indian Conference, scheduled to open in Jamaica in November. The provisional agenda of this conference session, which was to concentrate attention on the subject of industrialization, included the historical background of and agricultural bases for industrialization, the role of governments in promoting industrialization, and vocational training and other measures to increase productivity of labor. The commission was to consider two proposed conferences, one on trade promotion and the other on the timber trade. A report on the status of technical assistance projects also was on the commission's agenda.

The second meeting of the Caribbean Research Council was held from May 27 to 30, 1949 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, under the chairmanship of H. J. Page, Chairman of the Council. The agenda included a review of the work of the research branch of the central secretariat of the Commission as well as proposals for future research work in the area. The Council highly commended the staff of the research branch of the secretariat and the acting deputy chairman of the Council for the imagination and resourcefulness shown in the development of the research program and for the volume of practical work accomplished since the last meeting of the Council. Forty recommendations, covering a wide range of area research, were submitted for the consideration of the Commission.