Word: trusteeships
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...only four years old but has started to play with fire again. Last week the UN General Assembly voted to put into action the third part of the 1947 Palestine plan. Under the program the Trusteeship Council will internationalize Jerusalem, with the U.N. in control. This is a proper solution to a peace-disturbing problem, if the UN can put the plan into effect...
Before the World. Last week, Michael Scott called again on the U.N.; this time he won a public hearing before the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee. The South African delegation refused to attend. But others among the 59 delegations listened carefully, read with deep concern a bulky document, In Face of Fear, which the speaker had compiled...
...annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...
...Assembly also put Italian Somaliland (pop. 915,000) under a ten-year Italian trusteeship, to be followed by full independence. The fate of Eritrea, Italy's third former colony, which Ethiopia would like to annex, will be considered later, after a U.N. commission makes a firsthand study...
...neon signs (by Claude Bottiau, a young Breton who works in an office supply room at Lake Success); the naked sidewalks of 17th Street, and the inside of a bare room with an iron stove (by IndoChina's Tao-Kim Hai, an expert in U.N.'s trusteeship division...