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...Kurils deal gave added ammunition to U.S. proponents of outright U.S. annexation-as against administration under UNO trusteeship-of such wartime Pacific bases as the Marshalls, Marianas, Carolines and Okinawa (which occupies roughly the same strategic position to the south of Japan as the Kurils do to the north...
...delegates are not afraid to applaud their favorites, and Bevin is one of them. There were cheers when he said Britain was ready to put her mandates of Tanganyika, Togoland and the Cameroons under UNO trusteeship. There were still longer cheers, led by the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, when he promised early independence to Trans-Jordan, whose Indiana-sized expanse includes mud, lifeless desert and the Dead Sea. The Emir Abdullah was at once invited to London to implement the deal...
Only France and South Africa held back. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault merely said France was "prepared to study" trusteeship terms for her slices of Togoland and the Cameroons (rubber, cocoa, palm oil). With Gallic eloquence, he painted a picture of French colonial idealism and native happiness that was somewhat at variance with the facts. Forced labor and high taxes actually caused natives to flee by tens of thousands...
From Palestine to Korea, plenty of trusteeship problems still reared their awkward heads. But UNO had at least edged into one of the toughest problems San Francisco had bequeathed it-and the start was hopeful. The British, who have long smarted under catcalls of "Imperialism!" felt less defensive. They had cleared their decks, on mandates at least...
...street below the conference room, some 600 anti-Communist students demonstrated with banners denouncing the Moscow Conference suggestion of an Allied trusteeship (maximum five years). Then the Korean police stepped in, impartially raided both the headquarters of the left-wing "Youth's Preparatory Army" (estimated strength 3,000) and of the right-wing "Army" (estimated strength...