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ence pledge for colonial as we'll as
trusteeshlp peoples, and that there
is no chance of the votes being re-
considered
New Version Accepted.
The second stumbling block has
been paragraph 5 of section B,
which was criticized as an attempt
to freeze" dependent peoples in old
League mandates. Comdr. Stassen
presented new version, which was
agreed to by vote of "a to S. The
five negative votes were cast by rep
resentatives of the Arab states. The
paragraph now reads:
Except as may be agreed upon in
individual trusteeship arrangements,
placing each territory under the
truSteeship system, and until such
agreements have been concluded,
nothing in this charter shall be con-
strued in or of itself to alter in any
manner the rights whatsoever of any
peoples or the terms of existing in
ternational instruments to which
member states may respectively be
parties.
This paragraph should not be
interpreted as giving grounds for
delay or postponement of the nego-
tiation and conclusion of the agree
ments for placing inundated and
other territories as provided for in
paragraph 3, under the trusteeships
system"
1t is expected that the trusteeship
chapter will go to commission
meeting on Wednesday, where it will
be approved and be ready for final
action of the conference itself.
An amendment to the provision
for the election of a trusteeshipI
council was adopted also. so that
all permanent members of the Sc
curity council shall be represented,
whether they are administrators of
trusteeships or not.
Plan Is Voluntary.
The trusteeship plan, to cover both
old League of Nations mandates and
territories which may be put under
international control after this war
such as islands captured from
Japan-is purely voluntary. No ter
ritories would come under trustee
ship supervision until the nations
holding them agreed to put them
there.
The plan calls for a trusteeship
council of all the nations holding
such territories plus an equal num-
Der Of nations which did not have
trusteeships. Those other nations
would have to include any of the
Big Five powers not otherwise on
the council-meaning Russia and
China.
Thus the council probably would
be composed of Australia, France,
South Africa, New Zealand and the
United Kingdom, all of which hold
old league mandates; the United
States, if it put Pacific islands into
the pot; and Russia, China and
four other nations which the pro-
jected general assembly would elect.
Two Kinds Of Trusteeships.
There would be two kinds of trus-
teeships-strategic and non-stra-
tegic. This would allow the United
States to develop, under its own un-
supervised control, military bases
on Pacific islands it considers es-
sential to keeping peace in that part
of the world.
Chairman Connally of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, the
United States delegate on the Tech
nical Committee in charge of the
voting formula, is pressing for final
action on that part of the charter.
He presented the unanimous decla-
ration Of the Big Five at session
of subcommittee yesterday, point
ing out that through fine spirit
of cooperation the United States,
Russia Britain, France and China
had agreed on the meaning of the
formula and its operation.
The subcommittee is to meet
again today and the hope was ex-
pressed that the matter will be re-
ferred to the full committee for ac-
ton Monday.
During the past "a hours, great
strides have been made. The In
ternational Court of Justice statute
has been completely drafted. The
trusteeship system has been ac-
cepted. The French amendment
protecting fully the alliances which
have been entered into by European
nations against new aggression by
Germany has been finally approved.
And the functions of the economic
and security council have been
fully specified.
Yesterday the subcommittee on
amendment of the charter voted
to change the vote in the general
assembly from three-fourths to
two thirds. with the security coun-
Gil concurring, for a general con-
ference to review the charter and
offer amendments.
The subcommittee also voted, 9 to
6, that provision should be written
into the charter for a general con-
ference to review the charter not
sooner than five years nor later
than ten years hence. 1t was op-
posed by the representatives of the
Big Five and Norway on the ground
that it was unwise to attempt to put
a fixed date in the charter since
the great majority of the nations
might not wish to hold revision
conference at the time specified and
world conditions might not be pro-
pitious. This proposition was con-
sidered at a session of the Big Five
last night. It probably will be de-
feated in the end.
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