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Meanwhile, negotiations languished. Moderate, socialistic Prime Minister Sjahrir had to face a plenary session of his government's 240-man "National Committee," convince extremists that it was still worth-while to dicker with the Dutch for self-government under a United Nations trusteeship, with guaranteed independence to follow later. Even if Sjahrir could swing his Committee, the Dutch were not likely to agree to such a plan...
...weeks of waiting on London and Washington had ended at last in a joint policy pronouncement. Its principal points: 1) the U.S. for the first time will join with Britain in a Committee of Inquiry to review the Palestine problem; 2) the Committee will prepare a "permanent solution" (probably trusteeship under the United Nations Organization) for submission to UNO; 3) Palestine as the Jewish homeland will not be considered as the only possible solution for the problem of Jewish suffering...
...supervise, and the international police enforce, free international exchange of scientific information and inspection. ¶The trusteeship provisions be rewritten to place under UNO's administration "such trouble spots of the world as Java, Indo-China, Korea, Trieste, Palestine, and perhaps even Austria and Bulgaria...
Molotov in London switched over to a demand that Russia get some Italian colony (Tripolitania or Eritrea) under a one-power trusteeship. The U.S. and Brit ain promptly plumped hard for joint trusteeships...
...Russians promptly claimed a foul. At San Francisco, they said, former U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius had promised in a letter that the U.S. would not object to Russian participation in "administration and trusteeship." Molotov at London interpreted this phrase to mean a one-power mandate for an Italian colony, not merely a share in multipower supervision. In the Russian view, the "and" was all-important...