Word: trusteeship
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Ethridge pointed to the United States as the "trustees of both the physical and ideological forces of Western civilization." But he declared that we must approach this trusteeship with modesty, with a new stability, a new stability, a new guiding philosophy...
Only last November, anxious for Zionist political support, Harry Truman had plumped for partition, had ordered U.S. delegates to force it through the United Nations. Last March, anxious about Arab threats, he had startled the world by abandoning partition, plumping for trusteeship. The United Nations threw trusteeship out the window. But when the Jews took matters into their own hands, Harry Truman surprised the U.N. again...
Cohu, like Jack Frye before him, had flown into a squall with T.W.A.'s controlling stockholder, Howard Hughes. Cohu asked Hughes for complete authority to run the line, and had suggested that Hughes put his stock into a trusteeship which Cohu could control. Hughes refused and there was nothing left for Cohu to do but get out. Cohu was reportedly set to take a top job with Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Likeliest bet to succeed him in T.W.A. was Lieut. General Harold Lee George (ret.), who ran the ATC during the war, and until recently bossed Peruvian International Airways...
Other faltering U.N. steps were more promising. The General Assembly told the Trusteeship Council to plan "suitable protective measures" for Jerusalem. The U.S. delegation hoped that a security system for that city might be expanded to embrace all of Palestine. And for the first time, Britain wavered from its nobody-loves-my-dogged position that all British troops would leave by August; if the U.S. would provide its share of troops to enforce a truce, London seemed at least willing to think about leaving some Tommies to help out. Britons added, tongue in cheek, that the U.S. share might have...
...Russians, at least, it appeared likely that U.N.'s Assembly would create a trusteeship-on paper-and hand the problem to U.N.'s underworked Trusteeship Council: the Russians suddenly decided to take their seat on that Council, after boycotting it for 13 months...