By J.David Singer
This is one these infrequent prefaces during which the writer needn't try and justify, or express regret for, the addition of one other booklet to an already over harassed box. there's definitely no plethora of significant reviews on inter nationwide association regularly, and virtually none facing the executive facets of such association. extra accurately, the writer isn't really conscious of a unmarried complete therapy of the funds of any overseas political association, previous or current. through the years, many former Secretariat participants of the League, the United international locations, and their affiliated organisations have come forth with both memoirs or basic commentaries on their organisations. and often those works have incorporated revealing, yet short, passages facing budg etary questions, but none has handled those questions in any particular or thorough style. it really is unlucky that this can be so. no longer that the destiny of the area rides at the United countries price range, or that concerns of peace and battle can be made up our minds through the funds and cents of the Secretary-General's estimates. but questions of actual significance to some of the world's electorate are made up our minds within the budgetary fight. until eventually the coverage judgements of a few of the organs are translated into price range goods, there isn't any vacationing project to encourageTogoland's circulate towards eventual self-govern ment, no cease-fire observer within the center East, no rehabilitation com undertaking in South Korea, and no public management consultant in San tiago.
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54/Rev. 3, 27 September 1946, Preliminary Budget Estimates .... , Section E - Procedures, p. I04, 15 October 1946, Summary Record.... 86, 4 September 1946, Appointment qf External Auditors. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK 29 the process, assumptions had been clarified, earlier errors corrected, and additional details worked out. The United Nations now had an apparatus of men and procedures which, if it did not fully satisfy all who had helped in its development, at least offered the promise of regular procedure and financial integrity.
Pp. • , pp. 1-2. " A few days later, the estimates had gone through their final revision under the direction of the Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Administrative and Financial Services (John B. S. 1 Shortly thereafter, the Advisory Group published its second report, which included, inter alia, numerous comments on the 1946 and 1947 budgets. It specified the criteria which it had used in examining these estimates and implied that they might be applicable in the future: "Potential expenditures related to important matters of policy, that have not been fully considered by the General Assembly, should be excluded from the preliminary estimates, and be submitted as supplementary estimates; ...
Thus, in noting that many of the national governments formulate their own budgets during the first part of the calendar year and would therefore be unlikely to make their contributions until late summer, the Group permitted the need for expeditious receipts to become the primary consideration. These "more powerful considerations" led to the recommendation of a 1 January date, and this was subsequently endorsed by the Preparatory Commission and confirmed by the Fifth Committee during the first part of the First Assembly in its adoption of the Provisional Financial Regulations.