TEXT OF SENATE RESOLUTION 114 Senator Ball introduced the following Senate resolution on behalf of Senators Hill, Burton, Hatch, and himself on 16 March 1943. It was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations: Resolved, That the Senate advises that the United States take the initiative in calling meetings of representatives of the United Naions for the purpose of forming an organization of the United Nations with specific and limited authority: (1) To assist in coordinating and fully utilizing the military and economic resources of all member nations in the prosecution of the war against the Axis. (2) To establish temporary administrations for Axis-controlled areas of the world as these are occupied by United Nations forces, until such time as permanent governments can be established. (3) To administer relief and assistance in economic rehabilitation in territories of member nations needing such aid and in Axis territory occupied by United Nations forces. (4) To establish procedures and machinery for peaceful settlement of disputes and disagreements between nations. (5) To provide for the assembly and maintenance of a United Nations military force and to suppress by immediate use of such force any future attempt at military aggression by any nation. That the Senate further advises that any establishment of such United Nations organization provide machinery for its modification, for the delegation of additional specific and limited functions to such organization, and for admission of other nations to membership, and that member nations should commit themselves to seek no territorial aggrandizement. TEXT OF SENATE RESOLUTION 192 Senate Resolution 192, as introduced by Senator Connally on October 14, 1943: Resolved by the Senate of the United States: That the war against all our enemies be waged until complete victory is achieved; That the United States cooperate with its comrades in arms in securing a just and honorable peace; That the United States, acting through its constitutional process, join with free and sovereign nations in the establishment and maintenance of international authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world. Senate Resolution 192, as modified and passed by the Senate on November 5, 1943: Resolved, That the war against all our enemies be waged until complete victory is achieved. That the United States cooperate with its comrades-in-arms in securing a just and honorable peace. That the United States, acting through its constitutional processes, join with free and sovereign nations in the establishment and maintenance of international authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world. That the Senate recognizes the necessity of there being established at the earliest practicable date a general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large and small, for maintenance of international peace and security. That, pursuant to the Constitution of the United States, any treaty made to effect the purposes of this resolution, on behalf of the Government of the United States with any other nation or any association of nations, shall be made only by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur. Committee Report HOUSE REPORT ON HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 25 [House Report 553, 78th Cong. 1st Sess.] DECLARING THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS WITH RESPECT TO PAR- JUNE 16, 1943.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. BLOOM, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted the following [To accompany H. Con. Res. 25] The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 25) declaring the sense of the Congress with respect to participation by the United States in prevention of future aggression and the maintenance of peace, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the concurrent resolution do pass. も APPENDIX III DRAFT AGREEMENT FOR UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION, JUNE 10, 1943; AND EXTENSION OF UNRRA RELIEF TO ITALY, 79TH CONGRESS State Department Release No. 244, June 10, 1943, Together With Text of Draft Agreement for Establishment of a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (Confidential release for publication in the morning newspapers of Friday, June 11, 1943, which do not appear on the streets before 9 p.m. eastern wartime, Thursday, June 10, 1943. Not to be previously published, quoted from, or used in any way.) A draft agreement for a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was placed today by the Department of State before the Governments of all the United Nations and the other nations associated with them in this war. These nations were informed that the draft agreement had been drawn up in consultation with the British Government, the Soviet Government, and the Chinese Government, and that the draft proposal meets with the approval of the four Governments. The other Governments were assured, however, that the plan is still tentative and that no action will be proposed until they all have had an opportunity for full consideration and discussion of the suggested line of approach to this all-important problem. The draft agreement would provide for the immediate establishment of a central United Nations agency to assume responsibility for the relief and rehabilitation of the victims of war. It is hoped that preliminary discussions among all the United Nations and the nations associated with them will speedily clear the way for a meeeting of all these nations at which a definite agreement will be reached providing for joint action on relief and rehabilitation. No definite arrangements, however, have been made as yet for a meeting of the United Nations and the other nations involved on the subject of this draft proposal, and no arrangements will be made until all the Powers have had an opportunity to consider and discuss the draft agreement fully. The following nations, in addition to the United States, have signed the United Nations declaration of January 1, 1942: Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. The nations associated with the United Nations in this war are: Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Iceland, Iran, Liberia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The draft agreement is also being brought to the attention of the appropriate French authorities. The text of the draft agreement submitted to these nations is attached. (281) [Strictly Confidential] TEXT OF DRAFT AGREEMENT FOR UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION The Governments or Authorities whose duly authorized representatives have subscribed hereto. Being United Nations or being associated with the United Nations in this war, Being determined that immediately upon the liberation of any area by the armed forces of the United Nations the population thereof shall receive aid and relief from their sufferings, food, clothing, and shelter, aid in the prevention of pestilence and in the recovery of the health of the people, and that preparation and arrangements shall be made for the return of prisoners and exiles to their homes, for the resumption of agricultural and industrial production and the restoration of essential services, to the end that peoples once freed may be preserved and restored to health and strength for the tasks and opportunities of building anew. Have agreed as follows: ARTICLE I There is hereby established the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. 1. The Administration shall have power to acquire, hold, and convey property, to enter into contracts and undertake obligations, to designate or create agencies and to review the activities of agencies so created, to manage undertakings, and in general to perform any legal act appropriate to its objects and purposes. 2. Subject to the provisions of Article VII, the purposes and functions of the Administration shall be as follows: (a) To plan, coordinate, administer, or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims of war in any area under the control of any of the United Nations through the provision of food, fuel, clothing, and other basic necessities, housing facilities, medical and other essential services; and to facilitate in areas receiving relief the production and transportation of these articles and the furnishing of these services so far as necessary to the adequate provision of relief. The form of activities of the Administration within the territory of a member government wherein that government exercises administrative authority and the responsibility to be assumed by the member government for carrying out measures planned by the Administration therein shall be determined after consultation with and with the consent of the member government. (b) To formulate and recommend measures for individual or joint action by any or all of the member governments for the coordination of purchasing, the use of ships and other procurement activities in the period following the cessation of hostilities, with a view to integrating the plans and activities of the Administration with the total movement of supplies, and for the purpose of achieving an equitable distribution of available supplies. The Administration may administer such coordination measures as the member governments authorize. (c) To formulate and recommend for individual or joint action by any or all of the member governments measures with respect to such related matters, arising out of its experience in planning and performing the work of relief and rehabilitation, as may be proposed by any of the member governments and approved by unanimous vote of the Central Committee. ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP The members of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration shall be the governments or authorities signatory hereto and such other governments or authorities as may upon application for membership be admitted thereto by action by the Council or between sessions of the Council by the Central Committee. Wherever the term "member government" is used in this Agreement it shall be construed to embrace such authorities as shall have signed the Agreement or shall subsequently become members of the Administration. ARTICLE III. THE COUNCIL 1. Each member government shall name one representative, and such alternates as may be necessary, upon the Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which shall be the policy-making body of the Administration. The Council shall, for each of its sessions, select one of its members to preside at the session. 2. The Council shall be convened in normal session not less than twice a year by the Central Committee. It may be convened in special session whenever the Central Committee shall deem necessary, and shall be convened within thirty days after request therefor by a majority of the members of the Council. 3. The Central Committee of the Council shall consist of the representatives of China, the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, with the Director General presiding. Between sessions of the Council it shall exercise all the powers and functions thereof. It shall invite the participation of the representatives of any member government at those of its meetings at which action of special interest to such government is discussed. It shall invite the participation of the representative serving as Chairman of the Committee on Supplies of the Council at those of its meetings at which policies affecting the provision of supplies are discussed. 4. The Committee on Supplies of the Council shall consist of the members of the Council, or their alternates, representing those member governments likely to be principal suppliers of materials for relief and rehabilitation. The members shall be appointed by the Central Committee, with the approval of the Council if it be in session and otherwise subject to its ratification. The Committee on Supplies shall consider, formulate, and recommend to the Central Committee and the Council policies designed to assure the provision of required supplies. The Central Committee shall from time to time meet with the Committee on Supplies to review policy matters affecting supplies. 5. The Committee of the Council for Europe shall consist of all the members of the Council, or their alternates, representing member governments of territories within the European area, and such other members of the Council, representing other governments directly concerned with the problems of relief and rehabilitation in the European area, as shall be appointed by the Central Committee, with the approval of the Council if it be in session and otherwise subject to its ratification. The Committee of the Council for the Far East shall consist of all the members of the Council, or their alternates, representing member governments of territories within the Far Eastern area, and such other members of the Council representing other governments directly concerned with the problems of relief and rehabilitation in the Far Eastern area as shall be appointed by the Central Committee, with the approval of the Council if it be in session and otherwise subject to the Council's ratification. The regional committee shall normally meet within their respective areas. They shall consider and recommend to the Council and the Central Committee policies with respect to relief and rehabilitation within their respective areas. The Committee of the Council for Europe shall replace the Inter-Allied Committee on European post-war relief established in London on September 24, 1941, and the records of the latter shall be made available to the Committee for Europe. 6. The Council shall establish such other standing regional committees as it shall consider desirable, the functions of such committees and the method of appointing their members being identical to that provided in paragraph 5 of this Article with respect to the Committees of the Council for Europe and for the Far East. The Council shall also establish such other standing committees as it considers desirable to advise it, and, in intervals between sessions of the Council, to advise the Central Committee. For such technical standing committees as may be established, in respect of particular problems such as nutrition, health, agriculture, transport, repatriation, and finance, the members may be members of the Council or alternates nominated by them because of special competence in their respective fields of work. The members shall be appointed by the Central Committee, with the approval of the Council if it be in session and otherwise subject to its ratification. Should a regional committee so desire, subcommittees of the technical standing committees shall be established by the technical committees in consultation with the regional committees, to advise the regional committees. |