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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the trouble arising from Chapter XI has centered on the question of reports which governing powers are required to submit yearly to the U.N. on the social, economic, and technical conditions in dependent territories. South Africa has refused to transmit reports on South-West Africa, which it received under a League of Nations mandate in 1922. Three resolutions passed by the General Assembly have censured the South Africans for this policy, and ten days ago the U.N. voted to send the whole matter to the World Court...
More serious has been the opposition of the colonial powers to continuance of the 16-member committee which analyzes the social and economic data from dependent areas. The life of the group was recently extended three years by a vote of 41 to 4, with Britain, France, Belgium, and South Africa in the minority. Britain complained that information was being used by Russia for propaganda purposes, and that the committee had been given an "illegal" assignment to study political questions. The British also felt that reports should be made on all backward areas, self-governing as well as dependent...
Yard championships were decided as well last night. Matthews North emerged victors in the American Basketball League, while Weld North achieved dominance in the National League. Stoughton was overpowered by Matthews South...
Thayer North eked out a 25-23 win in a close game with Straus South. The half time score was 12-9. Grays beat Weld South 39-28 and the Hollis team won from Lionel, 18-14, to complete the list of Yard games last night...
...building is expected to be completed by October, according to the Reverend Mr. Edmund A. Steimle, Dv. '44. It will occupy approximately two-thirds of the footage on the south side of Winthrop, between Dunster and Boylston Streets...