Word: trusteeship
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...since the days of the great Marshal Lyautey had Frenchmen been so conscious of empire. The consciousness arose from the persistent (and unduly alarming) rumors that France would be asked to put some of her strategic overseas bases under international "trusteeship." To the Consultative Assembly hurried Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to defend his country's colonial record, challenge its critics, and proclaim a new deal for an empire second only to Britain...
...should try to dispossess France of her sovereignty of certain territories. . . . There are peoples to whom we owe an outstanding debt . . . whom we must lead toward a better future. The French nation, the nations that accompany us on our road and are faithful to us: that is the real trusteeship...
...many divisions has he got?"). It was an equally natural extension of President Roosevelt's recent assertion that the U.S. intends not only to take a responsible part in world affairs but to shape the decisions for which it shares responsibility. For Winston Churchill, the doctrine of trusteeship was insurance that a Britain exhausted by the war will have a position in keeping with Britain's needs...
...Three assertions alone cannot make trusteeship work. That will also require the conscious, wholehearted, fully informed support of the U.S. people. And it will require tacit acceptance by the hundreds of millions of people for whom the Big Three propose to be trustees...
Territories taken over from the Axis would be held in "trusteeship," on the theory that the people living in the territories might eventually become self-governing. This appeared to be an adaptation of the Versailles Treaty's mandate system, but this time the Council, rather than individual nations, would supervise...