Establishment of an Atlantic Joint Resources and Purchasing Board

Motion for a resolution | Doc. 144 | 20 November 1950

Signatories:

Mr Maurice EDELMAN, United Kingdom, SOC

Thesaurus

That this Assembly,

Bearing in mind the rising cost of living and the consequential hardship both to, wage and salary earners and to those, like pensioners, with fixed incomes;

Mindful of the rising cost of the defence programme and its heavy burden on the tax-payer ;

And recognising that these rising costs are, in great measure, due to the rising prices of overseas commodities;

Calls on the Committee of Ministers to concert action with the United States Government with a view to establishing an Atlantic Joint Resources and Purchasing Board which will have as its task,

a to bring down prices and stabilise the commodity markets by bulk and forward purchase ;

b to ensure that allocations are made to its members for stock-piling and current use on the basis of fair shares and common strategy.