Word: general
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of trusteeship was chopped in two parts in the UN Charter. Chapter XI of that document deals with dependent areas already being administered by individual nations, while Chapters XII and XIII provide machinery for the General Assembly to assume or delegate administrative powers over certain regions...
...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...
...Italian colonies in Africa, coming under the second category, have been the focus of argument at this session of the General Assembly. The peace treaty with Italy provided that if the Big Four disagreed on the disposition of her colonies, the dispute should go to the U.N. Russia wanted U.N. trusteeship for Libya, Eritrea, and Somaliland; the Western Allies wanted them administered by a single nation. The whole problem went to the General Assembly...
...case of Jerusalem, the result in the General Assembly was a grandiose deal. The Latin American bloc, favorable to Italy, voted to put Somaliland under Italian control for ten years, with independence promised at that time. To appease the Arabs, Libya was promised freedom by 1952, with a U.N. commission to supervise the establishment of an independent government. Eritrea will be polled by a five-nation committee next year to see if it wishes to join Ethiopia...
...general subject of cancer and the patient, the authoress is a little more competent--not because she knows any more about doctor-patient relations in cancer but because the element of drama which the interjects is more apropos to hospital scenes than to the laboratory. But her tear jerking little stories about women who are too modest to submit to examination and girls who must lose their ovaries are overly melodramatic. Such writing might increase the popular fear of cancer rather than control...