Word: trusteeships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other faltering U.N. steps were more promising. The General Assembly told the Trusteeship Council to plan "suitable protective measures" for Jerusalem. The U.S. delegation hoped that a security system for that city might be expanded to embrace all of Palestine. And for the first time, Britain wavered from its nobody-loves-my-dogged position that all British troops would leave by August; if the U.S. would provide its share of troops to enforce a truce, London seemed at least willing to think about leaving some Tommies to help out. Britons added, tongue in cheek, that the U.S. share might have...
...Russians, at least, it appeared likely that U.N.'s Assembly would create a trusteeship-on paper-and hand the problem to U.N.'s underworked Trusteeship Council: the Russians suddenly decided to take their seat on that Council, after boycotting it for 13 months...
...gloomy fellow delegates: "What are we here for?" By week's end there had been no answer from U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, to whom the assembly looked for a new plan to replace partition. Behind the scenes, however, the U.S. was trying to work out a temporary U.N. trusteeship. But before any plan could work, there must be peace in Palestine and a spirit of conciliation between Jews and Arabs. In Palestine, however, talk of truce sounded hollow. There the Jews were bucked up by a week of military successes, Arabs whipped on by a new sense of desperation...
...delegates on Long Island, unwilling to impose trusteeship by force, had less & less chance of getting a truce by agreement...
...interference" was on the agenda again. The 57-nation U.N. General Assembly would meet in emergency session this week in another attempt to solve the Palestine problem. But neither Jews nor Arabs had yet accepted the U.S.-sponsored plea for a Palestine truce. Without a truce, the temporary U.N. trusteeship proposed by the U.S. (and opposed by both Jews and Arabs) would be just as hard to enforce as partition...