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...Vietnam. To Lady Jackson, the problem of Vietnam is inseparable from that of China. Her ideal would be to see the area made into a UN Trusteeship until the economy gets going. "It's terribly important that China should not enter the modern world with the old idea of spheres of influence. That doesn't go anymore. Chinese power through the centuries has gone through this alteration of drawing in and then aggressively moving out. This 'Mao dynasty' seems to be one of the aggressive ones -- I mean, why take self-determination from the poor Tibetians?...I understand that...
...Eugenie Anderson, 56, ex-Democratic national committeewoman from Minnesota, former Ambassador to Denmark (1949-53), later Minister to Bulgaria (1962-64), as representative to the Trusteeship Council, succeeding Mrs. Marietta Tree...
Stay There, Mary. Nowhere are there more problems for the translator than on the islands of the Pacific, whose people have hundreds of languages, ranging from Bugi, the tongue of Celebes, to Yapese, spoken on the tiny U.S. trusteeship island of Yap. Most of them require awkward circumlocutions to express Catholic dogma. In pidgin English for example, God is "Bigfellow master too much who bosses heaven and ground." Even more bothersome is the primitive Enga language of the New Guinea mountains. In trying to translate the "Hail Mary" prayer, explains one missionary, "we found that if a group...
...islanders want only one thing that phosphate cannot buy: independence. However, as Chief deRoburt de parted for Manhattan last week to report to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, Australian Territories Minister Charles Barnes conceded cautiously that as a first step toward sovereignty for the island, his government will draft a Nauruan constitution; next January the first Nauruan Parliament will convene. If Nauru proves ready for self-government, Barnes says elliptically, "Further discussions will take place regarding the possibility of further political progress." In other words, it is only a matter of time before Nauruans will be independent-provided the Australian government...
Anderson will direct major University ceremonials and offer official hospitality to distinguished visitors while continuing his work in investment and trusteeship...