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Defense Com announces accord reptdly following US views; speculation; illus
Drummond and 14 aides convicted of disrupting union and violating const; ousted by meeting; meeting orderly; held under accord reached before NYS Sup Ct; J Curran in control; Honest Ballot Assn repr counts votes; J Lawrenson holds 80% of NY seamen anti-adm; illus
US State Dept reiterates opposition to cartels
UN Polish delegate J Winiewicz charges Brit shot strikers in 'united front,' Nigeria
prosecution submits documents identified as coming from Hiss; includes '38 secret coded cable from Amb Bullitt to Sec Hull on conversation with French Min Delbos; State Dept aide W A Anderson identifies documents as coming from State Dept; prosecutor lays groundwork for testimony of W Rosen, identified by Chambers as CP member who got Hiss car in '38; questions Cherner Motor Co official S A Mensh; Rosen case revd; prosecution witness P Banfield testifies on typed lr; witness testifies on Hiss vacation from State Dept from July 19-Aug 14, '37
1949Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.[†]
The Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others was approved by the United Nations General Assembly on 2 December 1949, and entered into force on 25 July 1951. The preamble states:"Whereas prostitution and the accompanying evil of the traffic in persons for the purpose of prostitution are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and endanger the welfare of the individual, the family, and the community"