Monday, March 23,1964 University Daily Kansan
Disaccord, Politics Seen at Trade Meet
Propaganda haymaking on the part of the Communists will certainly be a major feature at the outset.
GENEVA. —(UPI)— Political friction threatens the mammoth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development which opens here today
Qualified officials responsible for controlling the unwieldy conference expect an initial week or two of politicking before concrete work can start.
THE CONFERENCE is scheduler to end June 15 after a run of 12 weeks. There will be more than 1,500 delegates from 122 nations, making it the worlds biggest trade conference ever held.
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A staff member of the Topeca Daily Capital for 35 years, Mrs. Constance Van Natta Gardner, was announced yesterday as outstanding Kansas woman journalist by the KU chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary society for women in journalism.
A question being asked by many responsible diplomats is whether or
She will he honored Thursday night at a dinner of Theta Sigma Phi.
Mrs. Gardner joined the staff of the Topeka paper in 1929 following her graduation from Washburn University. After working in the women's department and in the news department for several years, she decided two years ago to shift to parttime status in the combined Capital-Journal women's department. She works on page layout on Mondays and Tuesdays, and on Wednesdays draws on her contacts for news for use the rest of the week. She also works in place of three other members of the Women's department during their vacations.
Theta Sigs To Honor Journalist
mrs. Gardner is a past president of the Kansas Newspaperwomen and also an alumnus of Nonoso, Washburn University's honorary society for women, and of the Washburn Alumni. At present she is a member of the board of directors of the Washburn Alumni.
not the size of the conference will defeat its aims, which are to boost world trade and spur the growth of economies in developing countries.
The differences are enormous in the political and economic systems and in the basic characteristics of the nations taking part.
She has continued her study of writing at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Middlebury, Vt., University of Colorado Summer Writer's Workshop, the University of Kansas Summer Writer's Conference, and with Frances Grinstead in the KU Bureau of Correspondence. She has also won numerous awards from Kansas Press Women and the National Federation of Press Women for her writing.
Old frictions are expected to be spotlighted between east and west, between the rich countries in the north and the poor in the south, as well as between basic economic thinking between Western nations themselves.
The education editor of the Kansas City Star since 1954. Mrs. Patricia Jansen Doyle, will speak at the dinner Thursday.
France, which has just recognized Peking, would then most probably support such a motion as it did recently in the World Health Organization.
The Soviet Union may well lead the rest of the Communist bloc in demanding that Peking be invited in and asking why it wasn't.
IF THEY WERE invited, what about East Germany, North Korea and North Viet Nam, the Communists will ask. This sort of theme poses a serious problem for conference organizers.
Mrs. Doyle has spent most of the years since her graduation from the University of Kansas as a staff writer on the Star. She received her B.S. in journalism from the William Allen White School of Journalism in 1951.
Mrs. Constance Gardner
The Communists and a lot of developing countries as well will probably ask why such nations as West Germany, South Korea and South Viet Nam were invited although they do not belong to the United Nations.
THERE IS ALSO the question of Red China, for that country, with one-quarter of the world's population, is not participating and was not invited to do so.
The developing countries, which took over the proposal for the conference from Moscow, much to the Kremlin's displeasure, have a whole stack of demands to make. Thus the improvement of economic and fiscal systems in developing nations will be another item for discussion.
The Communists also will renew their charges that Western industrialized nations have grouped together and surrounded themselves with protective trade barriers.
Led by Moscow, the Eastern bloc—which first proposed the conference back in 1956—will demand a greater chunk of world trade.
THE COMUNISTS as usual will do a lot of talking about the moral responsibility of helping developing areas with large investments without talking much about the money they are willing to hand out.
The West itself will have internal troubles. In particular many Western countries such as the U.S. and Britian differ on the subject of preferential treatment for developing countries.
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