Word: trusteeship
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...first round of the diplomatic struggle for Mediterranean influence was disposition of the Italian colonies. Jimmy Byrnes came up with a solution: all Italian colonies would be placed under a United Nations trusteeship; after a decade or more some of them might be ready for independence...
...accentuate the negative. What the Charter would not do, rather than what it might hopefully accomplish, was their theme. Carefully and objectively, white-suited Chairman Tom Connally and Senator Arthur Vandenberg explained the Charter would not abridge U.S. sovereignty; it would not put war-won Pacific islands under international trusteeship; it would not impose some postwar schemes of disarmament upon the U.S. without U.S. approval; it would not, by itself, take away from Congress the right to declare...
...carry out this program the General Assembly will control the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council and certain specialized agencies established by intergovernmental agreement...
...Trusteeship Council for dependent territories is guided by a statement of principles recognizing the paramount interests of the governed. The administering power is pledged to develop self-govern ment (but not necessarily independence) in trust territories. These guarantees are only theoretical - the Council as yet has no territories to protect - but the beginning is promising...
Words such as trusteeship ("entrust administrate system") and Security Council ("total-safety order-affairs meeting") became involved but precise characters. By transliteration Teheran became "virtue black orchid" and Yalta became "elegant...