GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ Y SANCHEZ: President Prio honors Int'l Bank of Reconstruction and Development 1950

Jurist Politician Diplomat Economist

Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Havana-1919-1934.

Secretary/treasurer-Cuban Society of International Law, 1920.

Legal Counsel to Secretary of State-1925-29

Delegate- VI American International Conference, 1928

Delegate/Technical Counsel-Conference on Conciliation and Arbitrage, Washington-1928

Secretary General-First Pan-American Conference of Municipalities, 1928

Delegate Plenapotentiary-Conference on Trademarks, Washington, 1929

Director of the International American Office for the Protection of Trademarks and Commerce, 1930.

Liberal Party - President-Havana province, 1930

Delegate-IV Pan-American Commercial Conference, Washington, 1931

Secretary of Justice, 1933

Member-House of Representatives, 1938-1942

Technical Advisor-Commission on Foreign Relations for the Senate, 1937

Technical Advisor-Commission for the Study of the New Constitution, 193?

President of the Foreign Relations Commission for the House of Representatives, 1939

Technical Director -Pan-American Commission for Intermuncipalities Cooperation, Chicago-1939

Delegate- VIII American Scientific Congress, Washington-1940

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1940-1941

Cuban delegation head and Sub-Committee President, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Atlantic City, 1943, 1944 and 1945.

G.A.T.T. Chairman Legal Drafting Committee and Tech. Dir., Cuban Delegation) Geneva-1947; (Head of Cuban Delegation) Geneva, Petropolis-1950, 1954.

Head of Cuban delegation, (GATT) Havana Charter, 1948.

President-Junta de Economia de Guerra, 1942.

President-Cuban Maritime Commission, 1942-43.

Ambassador to the United Nations (Security Council)1948.

President-Cuban Delegation, General Assembly, 1949

Technical Director/Secretary/President-National Junta of Economy (Junta Nacional de Economia) 1948-1953.

President-United Nations Economic Committee, 1951.

Minister of Finance (Ministro de Hacienda) 1953-1955.

Special Envoy-O.A.S. Conference of the Presidents, Panama, 1956.

President-Cuban Nuclear Energy Commission, 1956.

President-Ministerial Commission for Tariff Reform, 1958.

Minister of Economy (a.k.a. Ministro Presidente-Consejo Nacional de Economia/National Board of Economy, 1955-1959.

March 30, 2010

President Prio honors Int'l Bank of Reconstruction and Development 1950

On August 7, 1950 President Carlos Prío Socarrás honored the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development with a luncheon on the third floor of the Presidential Palace. Gathered for the luncheon with the President were the Prime Minister Dr. Manuel A. de Varona; Minister of Finance, José M. Bosch; Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Hevia; Minister of Public Works, Manuel Febles; President of the National Bank, Dr. Felipe Pazos; President of the National board of Economy (Junta Nacional de Economia), Dr. Gustavo Gutiérrez; José Alvarez Diaz, José Camacho and others. Among the members of the Bank's delegation from Washington, D.C. were Francis A. Truslow, Mr. Russell, Mr. Wood, Mr.Stanley, Mr. Mather and Mr. Lees.

The report from the World Bank stated the following; August 16, 1951 – The Report of the Truslow mission to Cuba is transmitted to the Cuban government. (A preliminary version of this report was issued in January 1951.) The report was based on the Cuban survey mission, and advocated immediate privatization of Cuba’s railways. Francis Truslow Adams, President of the New York Curb Exchange, was the chief of the survey mission, which made a comprehensive survey of the Cuban economy. The privatization issue was given some urgency by the fear that the 1951 and 1952 sugar crops might suffer from inadequate transport. The primary problems with the existing railway systems included high costs, over-age, deferred maintenance, increasing labor costs, competition from highway transportation, obsolete and inefficient equipment and over-capitalization in relation to earnings or real asset value. (Cuba withdrew from IBRD membership on November 14, 1960.)

Dr. Gutiérrez is in the bottom photograph seated third from the left.