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...statement, delivered off the cuff at a White House press conference, called for holding the islands under "individual trusteeship," and it gave some hope to friends of UNO who believe that the trusteeship ideal of the San Francisco conference can somehow be maintained. The same words caused some qualms among those Congressmen and Army & Navy chiefs who believe the U.S. should annex Pacific islands outright. The qualms were unjustified...
...trusteeship contract may still be written in London, but whether as "trustee" or outright owner, the U.S. is going to exercise full power over the islands it needs as strategic bases...
Infinite Puzzle. This seemed no paradox to Harry Truman. But the problem went deeper. The world, obviously, would not accept a U.S. trusteeship. The Germans had started the race for the bomb; the Japanese had been experimenting, too. Now the Russians started working furiously. Any other nation with the inclination and the money could get into the race, and some of them doubtless would...
...awkward sizes. Iran (see FOREIGN NEWS) posed a question the League never solved: what action will UNO take if a small power accuses a great power of aggression? Korea, still split between U.S. and Russian occupation zones, symbolized a whole set of answers needed on dependent areas and trusteeship. The Moscow press showed that Molotov was mincing no words on the Far East-Pravda challenged the presence of U.S. troops in China, and Izvestia complained that the U.S. tolerated "Japanese militarists in the toga of democrats...
Last week in London the trusteeship committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission was discussing a proposal which would permit African natives to elect spokesmen to appear before UNO. Up jumped South Africa's hardbitten, outspoken George Heaton Nicholls. Cried he: "To invite natives to get up on platforms and express their wishes would result in chaos in Africa...