Evening star., 1946-12-15
Trusfeeship Council
OF 10 Nations Sci Up as
Last Big U. n. Agency
BY the A.soeioisd Press

II NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE United
Nations Assembly today set up q
donation Trusteeship Council whose
primary aim is to bring indepen-
dence eventually to millions Of non
selfgoverning people throughout the
\ world.
The new council, last major organ
OF the United Nations to be estab-
lished, win round out the world
peace organization envisaged by the
u. N. charter, which now consists
of the General Assembly, Security
Council, Economic and Social Coun-
Gil, international Court Of Justice
and Secretariat.
/ It will start modestly by super
vising the administration Of eight
trust territories-an former League
of Nation mandates embracing 15,-
000, 600 inhabitants. It's sponsors
hope, however, that 1t will some day
have under its jurisdiction all or
most Of the hundreds of millions OF
persons who now lack full inde-
pendence.
Mexico and Iraq Elected.
While the chief aim of the coun-
Gil is to see that all territories placed
under its supervision advance pro-
gressively toward independence, its
immediate task is to make sure that
the trust territories are admins
tered in the best interests of the
inhabitants.
Final action creating the council
was the ASsembly's election of
Mexico and Iraq to fill two elective
seats and complete the councils
initial membership Of 10. The other
eight members got their seats auto
matically under terms of the Char
ter.
Both Mexico and .raq were chosen
on the first ballot, Mexico getting
36 votes and Iraq "a.
Great Britain, France, Belgium,
Australia and New Zealand get seats
as administering members, since
they are the mandatory. powers
which will actually administer the
eight trust territories. The United
States, Russia and China, as mem
bers of the Big Five, viii sit on the
council as mountaineering powers.
The Charter requires that enough
members be elected to keep an equal
balance between administering and
nonadministring powers.
Membership VIII Change.
4 The membership on the council
will change as additional trust ter
ritories are brought into the trus-
teeship system. For example, when
the former Japanese inundated
islands-the Marshalls, Carolines
and Marianas-arep placed under the
system, the United States will be-
come an administering state. This
will require the election OF an addi-
tionaI mountaineering member.
| President Truman announced
some weeks ago that the former
japanese mandates would be Of
fered as strategic area" trust ter
ritories in the immediate future.
The territories which go under
jurisdiction of the trusteeship coun-
Gil Immediately are: British Togo
land, British Cameroons, Tanga-
| nyika, French Togoland, French
Cameroons, Western Samoa (ad-
ministered by New Zealand New
Guinea administered by Australia)
and Ruanda- -Urundi administered
by Belgium).
South Africa Loses.
In another trusteeship action to-
day the Assembly rejected, by vote
Of 81 IT, o. the Union of South AZ
rica's request for annexation OF the
former inundated territory Of South
west Africa and recommended that
the territory be placed under U. N.
trusteeship.
South Africa fought for it's an
nexation plan all the way through
committee but did not cast. D ballot
in the final vote. There were nine
abstentations.
Premier Jan Christian Smuts had
warned during committee debate
that his government would continue
to administer the territory as IAN
integral part Of the union" regard
less of the u. N. decision.