1. Tait highlighted the important contributions the ILO was making to development and industrial training, through the Regional Conference in Mexico City in April 1946 and the Asian Regional Conference in New Delhi in 1947. Only days later, a regional meeting for the “Near and Middle East” would open in Istanbul. All three of these meetings focused on international economic cooperation and ILO programs “advocating new and bold measures in the field of monetary policy, credit, international trade and public works,” according to R. Islam, International Economic Cooperation and the United Nations (Groningen: J. B. Wolters, 1958), 82.
2. See, H. Feis, “The Geneva Proposals for an International Trade Charter,” International Organization, 2, no.1 (February 1948), 39–52.
3. P. Bidwell, “The Expansion of International Trade,” in The United States in a Multinational Economy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1945), 147.
4. J. Gimbel, The Origins of the Marshall Plan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1976), 13.
5. R. Toye, “The International Trade Organization,” in A. Narlikar, M. Daunton, and R. M. Stern, eds., The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 93.