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...Trusteeship Council for dependent territories is guided by a statement of principles recognizing the paramount interests of the governed. The administering power is pledged to develop self-govern ment (but not necessarily independence) in trust territories. These guarantees are only theoretical - the Council as yet has no territories to protect - but the beginning is promising...
SHAEF, the long wartime partnership of U.S. and British armed forces, was dissolving, to be replaced by the joint control plan, wherein each power would govern its own occupation zone...
Nearly 100 Civil Affairs officers, of both the Army and Navy, were graduated from Harvard University's Civil Affairs Training School in exercises held last Friday in the Faculty Room of University Hall. These officers comprise the second class of men Harvard has trained to govern occupied territories in the Far East...
Assistant Provost Marshall General H. M. Bryan USA, in his address to the officers, said that CATS were serving in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria, and in the Phillippines and other areas taken by American troops in the Pacific Theatre. Eventualy, he said, CATS officers would govern conquered peoples in the heart of Tokyo...
...order doesn't seem to make sense but I can see some reason for it. ... We've got to teach these Germans that we're the boss now, and if you go around fraternizing then they have influence over you and how are you going to govern them...