Word: trusteeship
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Italy's old Count Carlo Sforza entered its wide spaces first, to plead the case for Italian trusteeship of her former African colonies. The Netherlands' Dr. Dirk U. Stikker talked to Secretary Acheson for two hours, and was pressed to come to terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
Seattle taxi drivers speak of him sourly. Since 1944, Beck has kept them under local trusteeship (a state in which the rank & file cannot initiate meetings) as punishment for holding a wildcat strike. Many teamsters complain that they have no voice in the union's affairs...
...three days the conference went through the motions, disagreed and turned the problem over to the U.N. Assembly. Russia is willing to turn the colonies over to Italian trusteeship with or without U.N. supervision. So is the U.S., but it is hamstrung by a British promise to the Senusi tribes who inhabit part of Libya. In return for Senusi help during the war in the desert the British pledged that the Senusi would never again have to live under Italian rule. The U.S., undecided on whether to please the Italians or the British and Arabs, hopes the Assembly will decide...
...brilliant American Negro, son of a Detroit barber and grandson of a southern slave; a Ph.D. (Harvard), he was professor of political science at Howard University, specialized in colonial problems, served in OSS during the war, joined the State Department and finally became director of U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...think of Governor Dewey personally?'' blurted a newsman. He liked him personally, Truman replied promptly. What did he think about Dewey's proposal-made to a delegation of Italian-Americans-that Italy's former African colonies be returned to Italian administration under a U.N. trusteeship? Truman's voice was mild but edged. Under the Italian peace treaty, he said, the disposition of these colonies is under consideration by the Big Four powers. If they do not reach an agreement, the problem will go to the U.N. Assembly. The question cannot very well be handled politically...