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Specifically, Russia wanted sole trusteeship over Tripolitania, while the U.S. wanted four-power trusteeship. Russia wanted Trieste for Tito's Yugoslavia, while the U.S. and Britain wanted to leave it to Italy (with the port itself under international control). Russia wanted recognition of Bulgaria's regime, which the U.S. and Britain found unrepresentative...
...preliminaries, bogged down. They had discovered that no one treaty or situation can be settled by itself, because Russia sees the peace problem as a whole. Thus Russia might eventually desert Tito on Trieste if she can get what she wants in Iran, while her demand for a sole trusteeship of Tripoli may be a bargainer for complete freedom of the Dardanelles. Meanwhile the Russian delegates can only parrot well-known Moscow claims in well-worn formulas. Unless the deadlock is soon., broken from above, the Big Four's draft treaties for Europe will not be ready in time...
...withdrawal of British and French troops. Russian diplomatic radar is feeling out the Arab League. Turkey is under pressure to let Russia dominate the Dardanelles. Russia's good friend Tito is still clamoring for Trieste on the Adriatic, and Russia herself is clamoring for a one-panel trusteeship in Tripolitania...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd promptly took occasion to call the trusteeship idea "absurd"-if Russia can claim and take strategic lands, why shouldn...
...even without the more explosive matters which surged up later, these were testing tasks. Performing them, the General Assembly and its committees proved that they could be true world forums, free in debate and capable of decision. The world's will to feed the hungry, require in trusteeship a new sense of responsibility toward the weak, and in the new Economic and Social Council to see UNO take on real jobs for real ends, turned out to be an effective will. Things got done...