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[Communicated to the Council and
the Members of the League.]
Official No.: C> 646. M. 323. i932- VIII.
Geneva, September 24th, 1932.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSIT ORGANISATION
Committee of Enquiry on Questions relating to
Public Works and National Technical Equipment
REPORT ON THE THIRD SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE
[C. 646.1932. VIII.]
I.
Following on its second session held in Paris from March 30th to April 2nd, I932> the
Committee of Enquiry on Questions relating to Public Works and National Technical Equip¬
ment submitted to the Council of the League a general report on its first two sessions1. This
report explained the general lines along which the Committee had worked in judging the plans
of public works submitted to it, the main conditions which these public works should fulfil in
order to warrant the Committee’s recommendation, and, finally, its conclusions concerning
the plans it had studied.
The Council, having examined this report at its meeting on May 10th, 1932, adopted the
following resolution :
“ The Council,
“ (1) Having noted the report of the Committee of Enquiry on Questions relating
to Public Works and National Technical Equipment on its first two sessions :
“ Thanks the Committee for the work done by it up to the present and requests it
to continue the examination of the schemes which have already been submitted to it or
which may subsequently be submitted to it, and to report to the Council;
“ (2) Considering that, to take a decision on the effect to be given to the Committee's
findings, it would be desirable to have before it a larger number of schemes retained by
the Committee ;
“ Reserves its decision on the question, pending the receipt of the Committee’s next
report.”
Moreover, after considering certain suggestions submitted to it in a resolution adopted by
the International Labour Conference regarding the present economic crisis—one of its
suggestions being concerned with the question of public works on a large scale—the Council
decided, at its meeting on May 21st, 1932, to refer the suggestions of the International Labour
Conference to the Assembly and, at the same time, to request the Committee of Enquiry on
Questions relating to Public Works and National Technical Equipment to accelerate its
proceedings.
Following on these Council resolutions, the Secretary-General of the League informed the
various Governments in a circular letter that the next session of the Committee would take
place during the first days of September 1932, in order that the results of its work might be
submitted to the Council at its autumn session, held during the Assembly period. He
accordingly requested them to forward to him at a convenient date any schemes they might
still be intending to submit for the consideration of the Committee at its next session, as
well as the supplementary documentation which they had been asked to supply in connection
with their previous proposals.
1 Doc. C. 381. M. 214. 1932. VIII.
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