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its independence. It should hot be an appendage to the United Nations. It should retain its independence, and its independent constitution, and should not be the instrument of the United Nations for carrying out United Nations about labor. All ideas about labor should originate in the I.L.O., and when the I.L.O. adopted them, without further endorsement or anything else, they would become the operating basis.

Interviewer:

How did you feel about this?

Perkins:

Just right. It was exactly right. Don't let it get bogged under in the political schemes of the United Nations, or any other international body. This is the only way to operate, I'm sure.

Interviewer:

Has it remained that way?

Perkins:

Yes. Yes, it has. And it was a great fight to get it that way. It is attached to the United Nations, you see, and for administrative purposes its finances go through the United Nations. But it has independent rights over its own finances.

Interviewer:

Does it differ any way administratively from F.A.O., or do you know?

Perkins:

Oh yes, it does.





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