One-Eyed Missions

of UNO Trust Cou

THE strong feelings held in quarters, relative to the u:. perambulations of UNO Tru ship Council “missions” in the * Territory of New Guinea, adequately expressed recently a UNO Trusteeship Council at ' in New York, by Mr. W. D. For Mr. Forsyth (a former Secret General of the South Pacific < mission, and Australia’s repre ative at UNO) was dealing witl affairs of Tanganyika—a Territory like New Guinea, similarly subject to Trusts “mission” visits.

A “mission” report had sc correctly described condition Tanganyika (its report was c “unbalanced and unrealistic”) the Territory’s Legislative Cc had made a special protest to I! and Mr. Forsyth—speaking of ganyika, but doubtless thinkiri New Guinea —said some forth things: “Sir Charles Phillips (a petit from Tanganyika) pointed out: the visiting mission had dealt scantily with economic affairs, munications and social service had placed undue emphasis political questions, whereas it: the feeling of almost all info persons that the great need o< Territory was concentration economic development. Commui tions, for example, are vits progress in such a very country, and communication Tanganyika, according to Charles, are in great neei improvement. The visiting mi: however, paid little attention to basic need without which ecor development must be halting; Mr. Forsyth said that the mis;; emphasis on “time-limits for towards self-government” in ganyika was “not only conf: and trouble-making in the poll field, but tends to retard ecor development by disco u r a g essential investment.”

It was an ironical and deploc fact, he said, that practically no in Tanganyika had thought abn time limit until the visiting mi made a feature of the idea.