Pacific Territories At The Trusteeship Council
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New Guinea and Western Samoa were in the forefront of the news in late June, when matters relating
to those Trust Territories were be fore the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations, in New York.
Mr. W. D. Forsyth (formerly Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission and now Aus-
tralian Minister to the United Nations) was Aus tralia's chief representative at the Council, and was frequently under fire by in terrogators—most of them either Communists, who are hostile to Western Trustee ship nations, as a matter of policy, or representatives of semi-developed States, who often seem to be querulous because of an inferiority complex.
The detailed reports show that the Australian and New Zealand representatives dealt effectively with the critics, whether the subject was Pidgin, or landless natives, or white “ex ploitation.”
The Members of the Aus tralian Delegation to the Trusteeship Council are shown in this group photo graph, taken on June 36, at the Long Island residence of Mr. and Mrs. Forsyth. From left to right they are;— Mr. A. H. James, First Secretary, Australian Mission to UN, alternate Australian Representative on TC.
Mrs. Loamcs (obscured).
Mrs. J. Petherbridge.
Mr. J. Petherbridge, Second Secretary, Australian Mission to UN, Alternate Australian Representative on TC.
Mr. J. H. Jones, Director of Native Affairs, New Guinea, Special Australian Representative at TC.
Mrs. W. D. Forsyth.
Mr. W. D. Forsyth, Minister, Australian Mission to UN, Australian Repre sentative on TC.
The photo is by Leo Rosenthal.