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• ENGLISH ONLY NATO CONFIDENTIAL 20th July. 1959 WORKING PAPER AC/52-WPÇ???!

COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

NON-COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

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The Delegation has provided the attached list of non-communist international organizations for circulation to the .

(Signed) LUCILLE M. PEART DECLASSIFIED - PUBLIC DISCLOSURE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ - MISE EN LECTURE PUBLIQUE LECTURE EN - MISE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ DISCLOSURE - PUBLIC DECLASSIFIED NON-COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

1- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (l.C.F.T.U.) French title: Confédération internationale des syndicats libres (CAL.SAL.)

Spanish: Confederacic5n International de Organizaciones Sindicales Libres (C.I.O.S.L.) German: Internationaler Bund Freier Gewerkschaften (I.B.F.G.)

Address: 24 rue du Lombard, . Founded: December 1949» , by the non-Communist national trade union organisations which had withdrawn from the World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) when it was capturcd by the Communists.

Membership: 134 trade union organizations in 94 countries, totalling more than 55 million members. Consultative (A) with E.C.O.S.O.C., U.N.E.S.C.O., F.A.O., status: I.L.O., U.N.I.C.E.F. Regional . European Regional Organization (E.R.O.)., Organizations: Brussels; Asian Regional Organization, New Delhi; Inter-American Regional Organization (O.R.I.T.), . Trade International Federation of Building and Secrotariats : Woodworkers; • Federation of Commercial, Clérical and Tochnical Employees; Universal Alliance of Diamond Workers; International Union of Food nnd Drink Workers1 Associations; International Garment Workers' Federation; International Graphical Federation; International Union of Hotels, Restaurant and DECLASSIFIED - PUBLIC DISCLOSURE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ - MISE EN LECTURE PUBLIQUE LECTURE EN - MISE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ DISCLOSURE - PUBLIC DECLASSIFIED Bar Workers; International Federation of Industrial Organizations and Genoral Workers' Union; International Landworkers' Federation; International Federation of Petroleum Workers; Plantation Workers' International Federation; Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International; ALU CONFIDENTIAL -U- C/52-WPC 59)1 International Shoo and Leather Workers1 Federation; International Federation of Free Teachers' Unions. International Federation of Textile Workers' Associations; International Federation of Tobacco Workers'; International Transport Workers' Federation; » Co-ordinatin/TNCecrotarlnt o f National Unions of Students Tctho.s.B.c.T Permanent Administrative Agency of the INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DNFERENCE (I.S.C.) French title: Secretariat de Coordination des unions nationales d'Etudiants. Spanish: Coo~»dinadora de Uniones Nacionales de Estudiantes* Gorman: Koordiniorungs-Sekrctariat der Nationalen Studenten Verbände. Address: Rapenburg 4» Leiden, Netherlands. Founded: At the second International Student Conference (Edinburgh, January 1952). The first I.S.C. (Stockholm, December 1950), was called by non- Communist National Unions of Students which had broken away from the Communist-dominated International Union of Students (I.U.S.).

Membership: 63 National Unions participate in the I.S.C. Consultative status: With U.N.E.S.C.O. World Assembly of (W.A.Y.) French title: Assembles Mondiale de la jeunesse, Spanish: Assemblea Mundial de la Juventud. German: V/e It jugendverband. Address: 66, rue St. Bernard, Brussels.

DECLASSIFIED - PUBLIC DISCLOSURE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ - MISE EN LECTURE PUBLIQUE LECTURE EN - MISE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ DISCLOSURE - PUBLIC DECLASSIFIED Founded: August 1948, London, as Western (non-political) rival to the Communist World Federation -of Democratic Youth (W.F.D.Y.) Membership: National Co-ordinating of Youth organizations in 54 countries. Consultative (R) with E.C.O.8.O.C., U„N.E.S.C.O., U.N.I.C.E.F. status: International Commission of Jurists (r.C.J.).

French title: Commission internationale de juristes (C.I.J.)

Spanish: Comision Internacicnal de Juristes (C.I.J.)

German: Internationale Juristen-Kommission (I.J.K,)

Addressi : 6 rue du Mont de Sion, Geneva. th Founded: July 1952, West. Berlin.

Membership: Individuals, limited to 25, National Sections or Working Groups in over 3C countries (in America, Asisf, and Western Europe)

Consultative status : with U.N.E.S.C.O. International Federation of Journalists (I.F.J.) •

French title: Fédération Internationale des Journalistes (F.I.J.) Spanish: Federacion internacional de Periodistas (F.I.P.) German; Internationale Journalisten-Föderation.

Address : Maison de la Presse, 4 Petite rue au Beurre, Brussels. Founded: May 1952, Brussels. (The non-Communist journalist organisations of IO countries had withdrawn from the International Organisation of Journalists (I.O.J.) in 1949 because it had come under Communist control. The I.F.J., in contrast to the I.O.J., bans politics at its meetings).

Membership: 23 National Unions of Journalists totalling 45,900 members- in 19 countries.

Consultative (B) with ECOSOC and U.N.E.S.C.O: status«. 6. World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (W.C.O.T.PTT DECLASSIFIED - PUBLIC DISCLOSURE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ - MISE EN LECTURE PUBLIQUE LECTURE EN - MISE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ DISCLOSURE - PUBLIC DECLASSIFIED French title; Confédération mondiale des organisations, de la profession enseignante (C^M.O.f.E.,)

Spanish: Confédérécion Mundial de Orgrmi2aciones Profesionales de la Ensenanza. German: Weltverband der Lehrerorganisationen, Address: 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington 6 D.C. London office: Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, W.C.I. C/52-WP(59)1

Foundedî August 1952, , by representatives of International Federation of Teachers' Associations (I.F.T.A.), International Federation of Seconday Teachers (F.I.P.E.S.O.), World Organisation of the Teaching Profession (1946), to counter attempts by F.I.S.E. (Communist-oriented World Federation of Teachers' Unions, a trade department of W.F.T.U.) to draw these bodies into an organization which F.I.S.E. could dominate.

Membership: National and Associate Organisations totalling 3»500,000 teachers in 46 countries. Also I.F.T.A. and Fipeso.

Consultâtivo (B) With E.S.O.'C., U.N.E.S.C.O., U.N.I.C.E.F. status:

Congress for Cultural Freedom « CongrÔa pour la liberté de la . French title: Congreso para la Liberta de la Culture. Spanish-: Kongres fur die Freiheit der Kultur. German: 104 boulevard Haussmann, 8e. Address: June 1950, Berlin. As an international association Founded: of writers, scientists, scholars and artists defends intellectual liberties against all encroachments on the creative and critical spirit of man.

Membership; Active, associate, benefactors and honorary members.

I* International (Free) Federation' of Deportees and Resistance Internees (F.I.L.D.I.R.) . French title: Fédération, .internationale libre des déportés et internés de, la Resistance.

Spanish: Federacion Internacional Libre de Doportaldos e Internados de la Resistoncia. J DECLASSIFIED - PUBLIC DISCLOSURE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ - MISE EN LECTURE PUBLIQUE LECTURE EN - MISE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ DISCLOSURE - PUBLIC DECLASSIFIED German: Internationaler Froior Verband dos Deportierten und Internierten des Widerstabdsbowegung.

Address? 13 bis rue do Poissy, Paris 5e. Foxmde d: November 1951, Paris, by associations of former deportees and political prisoners which had separated from the Communist-dominated International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FAL.R.). Membership: National.organisations in seven West European countrios and exiled groups from Czechoslovakia, , Spain.

Consultative with E.C.O.S-.O.C. and Council of Europe status:

9. International Commission of Liaison and Co-ordination of the Re s i s t once (C.A.I.R .TI

French title: Commission Internationale de Liaison ot de Coordination de la Resistance.

Address: Rapporteur-Général , Hubert Halin, 8 rue de Londres, Brussels.

Founded: 1953t Brussels. 10. World Veterans Federation (W.V.F.) French title: Fédération mondiale des Anciens Combattants.

Spanish: Federncidn Mundiale de Veteranos de Guerra. German: Wel,tfrontkampforvcrband Address: 16 Rue Hamelin, Pnri3 l6o. Founded: November 1950, Paris, as International Federation of War Veterans' Organizations, following the earlier Inter-Allied Federation of Veterans, founded 1920, and the Rassemblement International des Anciens Combattants, founded 1948. Membership: 141 veterans' and war victims' associations in 36 countries, with combined membership of 20 million. Consultative (A) with E.C.O.S.O.C., with Council of Europe status: (E) and with F.A.O. and U.N.I.C.E.F. DECLASSIFIED - PUBLIC DISCLOSURE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ - MISE EN LECTURE PUBLIQUE LECTURE EN - MISE / DÉCLASSIFIÉ DISCLOSURE - PUBLIC DECLASSIFIED