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Some Notes on the United Nations Secretariat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Walter R. Crocker
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Readers of this periodical will have been struck with the quantity and the variety of international bodies existing today. Whatever else may be lacking in international organization there is no lack of international organizations.

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International Organization , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , November 1950 , pp. 598 - 613
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1950

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References

1 Documents E/1390 of 1949 and E/C. 2/W. 23/Add 1.

2 The International Secretariat of the Future, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1944Google Scholar; Purves, C., The Internal Administration of an International Secretariat, Royal Institute of In ternationnl Affairs, 1945Google Scholar; Ranshofen-Wert-heimer, C., The International Secretariat, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1945Google Scholar; Salter, et al., Conference on International Administration; and mimeographed proceedings of conferences on the Experience of the League Secretnriat convoked by the Carnegie Endowment in 1943–44. See also Phelan, E. J., Yes, and Thomas, Albert and Jenks, C. Wilfred, The Headquarters of International Institutions, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1946Google Scholar.

3 Excepting ILO; but the great majority of its staff today is new and ILO has repeated some of the mistakes of the new bodies.

4 The International Secretariat of the Future, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1944, p. 2Google Scholar.

5 Document A/64, July 1, 1946.

6 Advisory Group of Experts on Administrative. Personnel and Budgetary Questions. First Report … to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, March 8. 1948. Some employees were excluded from the above grades and could be paid on an hourly basis.

7 United Nations Secretariat, Manual of Standard Post Descriptions, 11 1947Google Scholar.

8 Document A/C.5/331.

9 Document A/C.5/SR.227.

10 Known as the First Report. A Second Report was published at Lake Success in October 1946.

11 Part-time because some of the members were delegates and had to participate in other committees.

12 First Report, p. 69.

13 Ibid., p. 52.

14 Ibid., p. 42.

15 Cf. Ibid., p. xiv.

16 Ibid., p. 65.

17 The figure of 54 includes officials performing functions that are new to the United Nations, e. g., coordination and liaison, and is therefore not an entirely fair comparison. There is no doubt, however, as to United Nations inflation of staff, including staff in the Secretary-General's office.

18 The 4 million dollars did not cover ILO or the Court.

18a The sections of this article dealing with recruitment and characteristics of the Secretariat are parts of a longer study.

19 On the confusion, cf. Second Report of the Advisory Group, op. cit.

20 Documents A/79, A/366, A/598, A/934. These axe the annual budgets for the years 1946–1949. Negotiations between the departments and the United Nations budget bureau on the one hand and the Secretary-General's office on the other are not published.