Word: trusteeships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many divisions has he got?"). It was an equally natural extension of President Roosevelt's recent assertion that the U.S. intends not only to take a responsible part in world affairs but to shape the decisions for which it shares responsibility. For Winston Churchill, the doctrine of trusteeship was insurance that a Britain exhausted by the war will have a position in keeping with Britain's needs...
Territories taken over from the Axis would be held in "trusteeship," on the theory that the people living in the territories might eventually become self-governing. This appeared to be an adaptation of the Versailles Treaty's mandate system, but this time the Council, rather than individual nations, would supervise...
...world organization, Welles is a Wilsonian, which puts him in the anti-Walter Lippmann camp. Against Lippmann's argument for regional groupings and alliances, Welles counterposes a revived League of Nations, a "Community of Power" with a central executive council, a centralized security and armaments commission, and international trusteeship of colonial peoples who are not ready for autonomy. In Welles's proposed provisional council of the United Nations. the big nations (Russia, the United Kingdom, China and the U.S.) would get four votes out of a total of eleven. Yet Welles would base his international organization on regional...
...Whether the press survives as a vital instrument of democracy will depend upon the wisdom and temper of its owners. Theirs it is to decide whether they shall . . . fight the people's battles . . . or fight the people for the interests; whether they shall administer a trusteeship or exploit a privilege...
...population, to be steamrollered into the Chinese pattern or inundated and absorbed by tidal waves of Chinese immigration? Or will China try to preserve the minority languages, schools and courts and let the natives participate in their own Government ? Upon her record in Turkestan, China's claim for trusteeship for other retarded racial groups in Asia may stand or fall...