World Trade Conference Reaches Permanent Machinery Pact
The 119 nation World Trade Conference ends with a compromise based on the Heath Formula to create a permanent trade organisation under the UN General Assembly. Developing countries gain an extra seat on the executive board, 53 seats allotted by region, and decisions by one vote with final UNGA approval.
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Geneva
Raul Prebisch
Argentina
Organlion
U.N. General Assembly
Tee
United Nations General Assembly
Polish Communist Party Opens Fourth Congress in Warsaw
The Warsaw gathering marks the 20th anniversary of Communist Poland as Wladyslaw Gomulka opens a six day congress. Delegations from 11 European countries attend while Communist China and other Asia Africa and Latin American nations are not invited. The Soviet side is led by Nikolai Podgorny.
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Warsaw
Communist Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Gomulka
Poland
China
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Nikolai Podgorny
Soviet Presidium
Emperor condemns South Africa life sentence as inhuman
Haile Selassie, visiting Zanzibar, denounced Nelson Mandela's life sentence as inhuman and cruel. He warned that a handful of wilful men clinging to power will fail against history's tide, in a speech during their state visit.
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Zanzibar
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Nelson Mandela
Associated Press
of Africa
South
Khrushchev to Visit Scandinavia and Kaliningrad Tour
Plans for Nikita Khrushchev to tour Kaliningrad and visit Denmark Sweden and Norway mark a European security push. He will be accompanied by wife and in laws while Danish police tighten security and exams are paused to aid measures. The visit is not seen causing major policy shifts but aims to press disarmament and European security views.
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Kaliningrad
Bashkiriyat Koenigsberg
Krushches
Plura
Tron
Openhagen
Eluden
Alene Adzhubei
Tevestia
Andrei Gromyko
Krisstchev
Copenhagen
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Romania Announces General Amnesty for Prisoners
In Bucharest the government announced it has released thousands of political prisoners and expects a general pardon in August, with virtually all prisoners to be freed by year end. Vice-Premier Alexandru Birladeanu, noted for opposing Khrushchev’s supra national ideas, confirmed differences with the Soviet Union but said no rift exists between the peoples.
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Wucharest
Rumania
Non- Economic Association of East
Associated Press of America
Alexandru Birladeanu
Khrushchev
Birladeanu
Soviet Union
Khrushche
Comecon
United States
Romania
A.P
Birladesnu
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