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Australia and the Trustee Planners
TWO members of the “Territories Committee of the US House of Representatives,” who arrived in Australia early in November, said that they were going to submit to Australia and New Zealand, and other countries holding Territories under Trusteeship, a new plan for the control of Trustee Territories.
The two (Mr. Monroe Redden and Mr. Fred Crawford) said that the plan was “to place all Trustee Territories under one international organisation, headed by a Governor” —and, presumably controlled by the Trustee Council of UNO.
The reaction of Australia (re sponsible for New Guinea and Nauru) was so fiercely unfavourable that the peripatetic planners did not wait for their proposed inter view with New Zealand (Western Samoa). They went hurriedly into verbal reverse and explained that they were not advocating a concrete plan, but were merely exploring a few alternative ideas.
Nothing more has been heard of them.
Countries holding ‘Trustee”
Territories know by now that UNO’s Trusteeship Council is not at all happy with the present set-up.
The Council wants far more power than it has now to direct and in struct the Trustee Nations. The latter, for their part, resent the interference of the international theorists and academic planners, and will resist any such plan as that proposed by the American Congressmen. (Since this was written, UNO has moved again. See top of column Z, page, 14.)