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...world organization, Welles is a Wilsonian, which puts him in the anti-Walter Lippmann camp. Against Lippmann's argument for regional groupings and alliances, Welles counterposes a revived League of Nations, a "Community of Power" with a central executive council, a centralized security and armaments commission, and international trusteeship of colonial peoples who are not ready for autonomy. In Welles's proposed provisional council of the United Nations. the big nations (Russia, the United Kingdom, China and the U.S.) would get four votes out of a total of eleven. Yet Welles would base his international organization on regional...
...Whether the press survives as a vital instrument of democracy will depend upon the wisdom and temper of its owners. Theirs it is to decide whether they shall . . . fight the people's battles . . . or fight the people for the interests; whether they shall administer a trusteeship or exploit a privilege...
...population, to be steamrollered into the Chinese pattern or inundated and absorbed by tidal waves of Chinese immigration? Or will China try to preserve the minority languages, schools and courts and let the natives participate in their own Government ? Upon her record in Turkestan, China's claim for trusteeship for other retarded racial groups in Asia may stand or fall...
First Zone. "The First Zone of Safety shall be to set up a trusteeship when this war shall have been prosecuted to the day of unconditional surrender. I propose that the trustees shall be Russia, Great Britain, the United States, the producing and effective nations, with China a full and equal member. . . . These trustees . . . shall administer the territories and people and economy of our enemies. . . . This trusteeship shall be indefinite in point of time. ... It will set up local governmental machinery. ... It will police the territories. . . . One of its first objectives will be to restore France to its rightful place...
Proposal. President Roosevelt had casually mentioned at a press conference last October his belief that the time had come to weld the islands of the Caribbean into an economic team. He added quickly that sovereignty would remain unchanged, suggested instead an international trusteeship for which the new Anglo-American Caribbean Commission might serve as a model, implied that if the experiment was a success the pattern might replace the battered mandate system throughout the colonial world. He spoke of studies going on to extend the franchise, overhaul the social and educational system, lift the economic level, encourage self-sufficiency...