Word: trusteeship
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...Willingdon, sometime Governor of Bombay and Madras declared roundly before the Congress that the white man must let down the color bar to other races, in order to avoid an inter-racial war in the future. Said he: "Providence long ago placed the white man in a position of trusteeship . . . Now his colored wards have grown up . . . He can no longer dominate them . . . He must treat all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality . . . A clash of races would be the ghastliest tragedy in history...
...Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes wrote that under Resolution 13 of the Washington Arms Conference the Powers recognized Chinese trusteeship for foreign investors in the Railway securities and the fact that China was not a party to the agreement in no way lessened her responsibility in the eyes of the Powers...
...were badly strained. President Ebert of Germany discussed General Lossow, commander of the Reichswehr (Reich Defence Force) in Bavaria, and replaced him with General Baron Kress von Kressenstein. Dr. von Kahr, Dictator of Bavaria, reappointed General Lossow to command of the Reichswehr, thus openly defying Berlin. By establishing a trusteeship authority over the Federal troops garrisoned in Bavaria, Dr. von Kahr virtually "kidnapped" 12,000 men. Baron von Kressenstein asked the Berlin Government to relieve him of his uncomfortable position. Dr. von Kahr and Minister President von Knilling declared that Bavaria was not disloyal to the Reich and laid...
...president should be responsible for its administration. President Butterfield is to be commended for telling the alumni of the institution, in his report to the committee on college administration, that either the authority for running the college should be returned to the trustees and the president, or else the trusteeship and the presidency should be abolished. The president is practically helpless under the present system of administration, his situation being in some degree analogous to that of the master of a public high school whose functions are entirely usurped by a city government or board of selectmen. A school cannot...
...with recognition of dynastic interests, it ignored the rising tide of nationalism and democracy. It remained for the present treaty to recognize cultural and economic considerations and self-determination in redefining boundaries; to substitute co-operation for rivalry by placing important ports and undeveloped regions under international government or trusteeship; by co-ordinating the international administration of world utilities, and by providing for international consideration of labor and social problems; and to cement the structure and provide the future development by the political organization of the world through the covenants and institutions of the League of Nations...