International Cooperation 1949 - 1957

Abstract

Volume V of International Co-operation differs from its four predecessors in several important respects. It is not a collection of reports drafted by the I.C. A.’s affiliated Organisations and edited in the Secretariat, but rather a work planned and executed by the Secretariat, using its own documentary resources supplemented by material supplied by the National Organisations. As a result it has been possible to achieve much greater comprehensiveness and uniformity of treatment in outlining the progress made by the Co-operative Movement in the countries of the Alliance and relating it to its economic and social background. At the same time the Secretariat gratefully acknowledges the assistance rendered by Mr. Lars Eronn, editor of Kooperatoren, Sweden, in planning the Volume and writing some of the sections during his temporary service with the Alliance in 1957-1958, and by the several contributors who willingly wrote national reports conforming to the general plan or supplied other useful material. With their help it has been possible to present a picture of the Alliance and its members, as they pass through an important period of their history, with greater accuracy and completeness than previously