TRADE CONFERENCE SPEECH CAUSES SENSATION

Chronicle (Levin), 15 April 1947, Page 5

TRADE CONFERENCE SPEECH CAUSES SENSATION

Received Monday, 8.85 ] ?n. GJvXK YA, April 14. M. .Tesm Duret, repres mu ing ihe World Federation oi' Trade !'iiii:is; \ ig orouslv altacked tlie pr'uicioie-? under lying Ihe work oi the inieinaiioual Trade Organisation 1111 Uie speivh caused a .sensation aiu-ijg v monoao, British and other English speakuig dfdegations. AI. Duret said the effo-t (o revive worid trade 011 the basis oi' L'pm'ily ot treatmeiit aiul 011 discrimination, nuist fie ahandoned because a nuniber oi nations did not support those principles, which would divide tlie world into ( " antagonistic econoniie biocs". AI. t also said the removal oi trade «iHirriers as the nations proposed, was Ihe wrong way to prevent a depreSsion and increase employment. The Daily Telegraph 's eorrespondent says AI. Durcl 's speech, since the Comliiunists have nianaged to eapture the administrat h e side oi the World Feder--ation of Trade Unions, was widely interpreted as an expression oi the Riissian viewpoint. The speech served as a warning that Russia's refusal to attond the Geneva conference did not merelv indicate indifferenee but aetive opposifion and aiso presented the disturbing possibility that the Communists and other Left Wing parties would mahe an effort to sabotage agreements wluch ihe conference may reach.