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...Trusteeship Director...
...told the U.N. last month, that the U.S. has "no monopoly of wisdom or virtue." He is against starting a "holy war" to extirpate Communism. And he is fully aware that sound morals do not necessarily lead to wise policies. But he believes that where a nation holds a trusteeship against an organized, clearly recognizable evil, as the U.S. does, successful, realistic policy takes on a positive moral value...
Last week the old battle was raging again. The U.N.'s Trusteeship Council noted that Pidgin "has characteristics . . . which reflect now outmoded concepts of the relationship between indigenous inhabitants and immigrant groups" (U.N. Pidgin for "It's undemocratic"). The council's recommendation: that New Guinea's Australian administrators "develop plans to eliminate [Pidgin] completely." Would the resolution do the trick? Cried Paul Hasluck, Australia's Minister for Territories: "Just as foolish as suggesting that all Europeans should speak nothing but Russian next week...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Glenn L. Emmons, 57, a Gallup, N.Mex. banker and longtime friend and popular partisan of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute. Apache and Pueblo tribes in his neighborhood. As commissioner, said Emmons, he will aim to "liquidate the trusteeship of the Indians as quickly as possible," and make them self-supporting citizens...
...office was harried by alarmed calls from Congressmen and U.N. representatives. To White House newsmen, Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty hurriedly issued a strong denial: "The reported Administration policy on Formosa and Korea is without foundation in fact." The Administration, he continued, had neither 1) considered a U.N. trusteeship for Formosa, nor 2) reached any conclusion about a partition of Korea...