Word: trusteeships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infinite Puzzle. This seemed no paradox to Harry Truman. But the problem went deeper. The world, obviously, would not accept a U.S. trusteeship. The Germans had started the race for the bomb; the Japanese had been experimenting, too. Now the Russians started working furiously. Any other nation with the inclination and the money could get into the race, and some of them doubtless would...
...awkward sizes. Iran (see FOREIGN NEWS) posed a question the League never solved: what action will UNO take if a small power accuses a great power of aggression? Korea, still split between U.S. and Russian occupation zones, symbolized a whole set of answers needed on dependent areas and trusteeship. The Moscow press showed that Molotov was mincing no words on the Far East-Pravda challenged the presence of U.S. troops in China, and Izvestia complained that the U.S. tolerated "Japanese militarists in the toga of democrats...
Meanwhile, negotiations languished. Moderate, socialistic Prime Minister Sjahrir had to face a plenary session of his government's 240-man "National Committee," convince extremists that it was still worth-while to dicker with the Dutch for self-government under a United Nations trusteeship, with guaranteed independence to follow later. Even if Sjahrir could swing his Committee, the Dutch were not likely to agree to such a plan...
...weeks of waiting on London and Washington had ended at last in a joint policy pronouncement. Its principal points: 1) the U.S. for the first time will join with Britain in a Committee of Inquiry to review the Palestine problem; 2) the Committee will prepare a "permanent solution" (probably trusteeship under the United Nations Organization) for submission to UNO; 3) Palestine as the Jewish homeland will not be considered as the only possible solution for the problem of Jewish suffering...
...supervise, and the international police enforce, free international exchange of scientific information and inspection. ¶The trusteeship provisions be rewritten to place under UNO's administration "such trouble spots of the world as Java, Indo-China, Korea, Trieste, Palestine, and perhaps even Austria and Bulgaria...