Word: secretariats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list carefully weighed and balanced to avoid any unwonted partisanship, ardent Laborites, faithful aides of Prime Ministers Churchill and Eden (including five members of Churchill's secretariat), and deserving politicians in the dominions beyond the seas were all duly remembered by Her Majesty. Only Roger Bannister's name really caught the public fancy in a list largely devoted to bureaucrats rewarded and diplomats given titles appropriate to their jobs...
...tariff concessions were expanded at a meeting in 1949, and again in 1951. The agreement now covers 58,000 concessions, on everything from locomotives to leather gloves. But GATT delegates, for all their accomplishments, never had a place to hang their hats. They met intermittently, lacked even an adequate secretariat. Earlier this year they decided to set up a permanent secretariat, the Organization for Trade Cooperation, to keep records of rate agreements, provide a forum for participating countries, make arrangements for negotiations, etc. But OTC would conduct no negotiations on tariffs or trade, leave that up to delegates from interested...
Crocker Snow '26, a trustee of the Aviation Foundation, remarked yesterday that the civil secretariat of the Defense Department is enthused about the prospects of such a program. Undergraduate training would provide better prospective flyers at a lower cost to the government and would weed out the incompetents early, Snow said. "The regular admirals and generals, however, probably won't think too much of the idea," he added...
...first caller is always portly, poised General Chang Chun, secretary-general of his 240-man secretariat, and a friend of 50 years. The previous secretary, Wang Shih-chieh, was fired by the Generalissimo in a fit of temper two years ago-some say for saying no too sharply and too often, some say because the Generalissimo thought he was hiding things from him. Chang avoids this accusation by passing along any problem that might conceivably interest his unpredictable boss...
...mutual defense organization. Australia and the Philippines want a firm military structure and precise military commitments. The British want merely a secretariat, and the U.S. position is somewhat similar. The British, acutely aware of the vulnerability of Malaya since the fall of Dienbienphu, are already building jet air bases and plan to transfer the Australian garrison from Suez to Malaya. The British would like Singapore to be GHQ of the treaty organization, but may yield to the U.S. preference for Bangkok or Manila, either of which would avoid the stigma of colonialism attaching to Singapore...