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International Telecommunications Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Established in 1932 by the Madrid Radio-telegraph Conference as a successor to the International Telegraph Union, the International Telecommunications Union held a meeting in Moscow September 28 to discuss necessary revisions to be made in the Madrid Convention, and to hold informal preliminary discussions prior to the calling of a World Telecommunications Conference. Delegates were present from China, France, USSR, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities IV. Other General International Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , February 1947 , pp. 148 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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References

1 For general background on the ITU, see Francis Colt de Wolf, “Telecommunications in the New World.” Yale Law Journal, August, 1946. (Mr. de Wolf is Chief, Telecommunications Division, Department of State and headed the American delegation to the Moscow Conference.)

2 Department of State Press Release 795, November 8, 1946, p. 3.

3 United Nations Economic and Social Council, Document E/42, May 20, 1946.

4 Department of State Press Release 795, p. 4.