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...against the territory's Italians, killing more Europeans than were slain in Kenya's Mau Mau revolt. But tribesmen have been won over by Italy's patience and good will. "Somalis will always be grateful to Italy," said Aden Abdullah. Last week, with its ten-year trusteeship term half over, Italy turned over all legislative power to an elected native Parliament. Abdullah's party, dedicated to modernization of the Somalis' age-old tribal life, and opposed by traditionalist tribal parties, won 43 out of 63 seats...
...barracks, the four-lane highways - visible evidence that their latest conquerors are in Okinawa to stay. The legal situation is deliberately fuzzy. The U.S. has acknowledged Japan's "residual sovereignty" over Okinawa. But by the Japanese Peace Treaty, Japan promised to concur if the U.S. proposed a U.N. trusteeship for Okinawa "with the U.S. as sole administering authority," and pending such trusteeship, granted the U.S. full jurisdiction. The U.S. has never applied for a U.N. trusteeship. The Japanese government has expressed "pain and anxiety" about the future of the Ryukyu Islands, and in 1953 the U.S. returned the northern...
...Received, "with regret" a request from Allen Whitfield to withdraw Whitfield's name as a nominee for membership on the Atomic Energy Commission. Whitfield, an attorney and Republican leader of Des Moines. had been under fire from Democrats for his handling of an estate trusteeship before and during World War II. He said he could not answer a set of 24 questions from Senator Clinton Anderson, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, without violating confidential relations with his clients...
...earn their daily bread in peace." The U.N.'s moral power derives from its ability to mobilize a great intangible: world public opinion. It was a sense of this moral power that led the Belgians to improve conditions in their trust territory of Ruanda Urundi-before the U.N. Trusteeship Council sent out an inspection team. The British and French pulled their troops out of Syria and Lebanon in 1946 because, as civilized nations, they were unwilling to fly in the face of censure in the Security Council...
Stomping into the conference room in his black coat and jodhpurs, he announced his own plan: withdrawal of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, abandonment of Quemoy and Matsu, a trusteeship for Formosa either under the U.N. or the Colombo powers...