Word: trusteeships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, at Lake Success, the U.S. deposited its bid for sole trusteeship of the former Japanese Pacific mandates. The Carolines, Marshalls, and Mariannas were only dots on a world map, but control of them could assure control of the whole western Pacific. The U.S. proposed a "strategic area" zone, where it could draw the curtains if it wanted to. Unstressed were two highly pertinent facts: 1) the U.S. was in possession; and 2) the U.S. could veto any unwelcome counterschemes...
...Britain might simply propose a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine- with herself as sole trustee, as in League days. (But all parties would then cry "Fake!" and Britain would be back where she started...
Thus, this nation finds itself in an embarrassing situation on the issue of UN trusteeships of non-self-governing areas, the details of which program incidentally was chiefly of American origin. Adamantly refusing to surrender to anyone the banner of all-out support of the UN and its principles, the U. S. at the same time hears its political leaders insist on the annexation, outright or by subterfuge, of the Pacific islands which were taken from the Japanese during and after the war. The latest of these utterances stems from a report on these islands by a House Naval Affairs...
...would not be as vexing to the more conscientious of America's foreign policy shapers did not the UN Charter specifically list as one of the three types of trusteeship territories: "Territorities which may be detached from enemy states as a result of the second World War." (Article 77). Another source of annoyance was the action of old-time imperialist nations, such as England, France and Belgium, along with Australia and New Zealand in giving to the authority of the Trusteeship Council former mandate territories (another group specifically mentioned in the Charter as potential trustee lands) with a total area...
...South Africa asked for annexation of South West Africa, which she now holds under a League of Nations mandate. The Assembly found itself "unable to accede" to the request, politely asked South Africa to seek a trusteeship under the new arrangements...