Word: trusteeships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formula for Purging. Koreans, remembering Japan's tutelage, were disappointed when the Moscow Conference decided upon another trusteeship, under the U.S. and Russia, for five years. Rightist groups in the American zone, loosely amalgamated in the Representative Democratic Council under elder statesman Syngman Rhee, protested heatedly, berated both the U.S. and Russia. But leftists, gathered under Communist domination in the Democratic People's Front, espoused trusteeship and opposed immediate independence, although Communists all over the world were yipping for the freedom of India and Indonesia...
...Palace, Soviet negotiators demanded that all Koreans who had spoken against trusteeship be barred from consultation. The Russian attitude, as one American put it, was: "The gods have spoken. Korea is going to have trusteeship. Why listen to those who oppose it?" They went even further. They asked that members of the Representative Democratic Council be disqualified from any provisional government...
Specifically, Russia wanted sole trusteeship over Tripolitania, while the U.S. wanted four-power trusteeship. Russia wanted Trieste for Tito's Yugoslavia, while the U.S. and Britain wanted to leave it to Italy (with the port itself under international control). Russia wanted recognition of Bulgaria's regime, which the U.S. and Britain found unrepresentative...
...preliminaries, bogged down. They had discovered that no one treaty or situation can be settled by itself, because Russia sees the peace problem as a whole. Thus Russia might eventually desert Tito on Trieste if she can get what she wants in Iran, while her demand for a sole trusteeship of Tripoli may be a bargainer for complete freedom of the Dardanelles. Meanwhile the Russian delegates can only parrot well-known Moscow claims in well-worn formulas. Unless the deadlock is soon., broken from above, the Big Four's draft treaties for Europe will not be ready in time...
...withdrawal of British and French troops. Russian diplomatic radar is feeling out the Arab League. Turkey is under pressure to let Russia dominate the Dardanelles. Russia's good friend Tito is still clamoring for Trieste on the Adriatic, and Russia herself is clamoring for a one-panel trusteeship in Tripolitania...