Word: trusteeships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carry out this program the General Assembly will control the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council and certain specialized agencies established by intergovernmental agreement...
Words such as trusteeship ("entrust administrate system") and Security Council ("total-safety order-affairs meeting") became involved but precise characters. By transliteration Teheran became "virtue black orchid" and Yalta became "elegant...
...vaguely, for the independence of all peoples. On the rare occasions when it had had to act, practice had not always followed precept. Last week in San Francisco, the U.S. Secretary of State announced that the U.S. now preferred, in discussing the ultimate disposition of colonies or areas under trusteeship, the word "self-government" to the word "independence." The U.S. thus sided with Great Britain and France, against Russia and China, who had wanted UNCIO to go on record as favoring independence...
...week the Truman formula was presented to the San Francisco conference. As submitted to other interested powers, the U.S. proposals acknowledged the principle of international responsibility, but sacrificed no U.S. advantage or necessity. The proposals were hedged in several ways. All decisions on what areas are to come under trusteeship would be left until later. Only non-strategic territories-if any-would be subject to world supervision in the new General Assembly. Strategic areas would be handled by individual powers responsible to the Security Council, where the Big Powers could exercise their veto power at will. In the final analysis...
British counterproposals agreed with the general objectives of the U.S. plan, but disagreed in one important feature. The British would place nominal responsibility for all trusteeships, strategic or otherwise, in the General Assembly. On the surface, this proposal seemed to have a higher content of principle than the U.S. proposals. Actually, both powers were in pretty much the same position. Both agreed on the principle of trusteeship, but neither proposed to make any real sacrifice for the principle...