International Organizations and Movements: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 807 pages

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Page 606 - To facilitate the expansion and balanced growth of international trade, and to contribute thereby to the promotion and maintenance of high levels of employment and real income and to the development of the productive resources of all members as primary objectives of economic policy.
Page 116 - ... should be judged in this light and accepted only in so far as they may be held to promote and not to hinder the achievement of this fundamental objective...
Page 606 - To assist in the establishment of a multilateral system of payments in respect of current transactions between members and in the elimination of foreign exchange restrictions which hamper the growth of world trade.
Page 606 - To give confidence to members by making the general resources of the Fund temporarily available to them under adequate safeguards, thus providing them with opportunity to correct maladjustments in their balance of payments without resorting to measures destructive of national or International prosperity.
Page 326 - Collaborate in the work of advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples through all means of mass communication and to that end recommend such international agreements as may be necessary to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image. (b) Give fresh impulse to popular education and to the spread of culture...
Page 736 - CT*HAT since wars begin in the minds of men it is in the minds of men that •"• the defenses of peace must be constructed...
Page 326 - With a view to preserving the independence, integrity and fruitful diversity of the cultures and educational systems of the States Members of this Organization, the Organization is prohibited from intervening in matters which are essentially within their domestic jurisdiction.
Page 729 - Declare that since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed...
Page 608 - Nations as the central agency for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization and improvement of statistics serving the general purposes of international organizations. 3. The United Nations recognizes the Organization as the appropriate agency for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization and improvement of statistics within its! special sphere...
Page 512 - Organization may on the request of a Member State delegate either temporarily or permanently a Member of its Secretariat to serve on the National Commission of that State in order to assist in the development of its work.

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