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Thus, this nation finds itself in an embarrassing situation on the issue of UN trusteeships of non-self-governing areas, the details of which program incidentally was chiefly of American origin. Adamantly refusing to surrender to anyone the banner of all-out support of the UN and its principles, the U. S. at the same time hears its political leaders insist on the annexation, outright or by subterfuge, of the Pacific islands which were taken from the Japanese during and after the war. The latest of these utterances stems from a report on these islands by a House Naval Affairs...
...would not be as vexing to the more conscientious of America's foreign policy shapers did not the UN Charter specifically list as one of the three types of trusteeship territories: "Territorities which may be detached from enemy states as a result of the second World War." (Article 77). Another source of annoyance was the action of old-time imperialist nations, such as England, France and Belgium, along with Australia and New Zealand in giving to the authority of the Trusteeship Council former mandate territories (another group specifically mentioned in the Charter as potential trustee lands) with a total area...
...South Africa asked for annexation of South West Africa, which she now holds under a League of Nations mandate. The Assembly found itself "unable to accede" to the request, politely asked South Africa to seek a trusteeship under the new arrangements...
...Trusteeships. The Assembly brought into being a Trusteeship Council, replacing the old League of Nations mandate system. Nearly all the trusteeship drafts were carried by a vote of 41-to-6 with five abstentions. Russia & Co. voted against them for several reasons-mainly because a trustee can build air, military or naval bases in certain custodial areas without declaring them "strategic areas" -that is, leaving them out of the Security Council's purview and beyond reach of the veto...
...supply of pessimistic dismay and insomnia to keep them happy, for the first United Nations meeting on American soil dealt inadequately or not at all with many international sore spots. Franco Spain received only a routine rebuke; the veto is still too powerful a weapon in U.N. procedure; and trusteeship questions are still undecided. But the credits outweigh the debits, and the recent General Assembly Session may have charted a road on which nations can travel together in peace...