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The UN Special Committee on Colonialism had itself a ball in New York in November.
In a series of meetings it dis posed of, to its own satisfac tion if to nobody else’s, just about the whole of the South Seas territories, plus a few in the North Pacific.
The committee discussed the Australian administered Pacific territories of P-NG, and Nauru; the NZ territories of the Cooks, Niue and the Tokelau Islands; the American territories of Samoa, Guam and Micronesia; the British territories of Fiji, the Solo mons, the Gilbert and Ellice group and Pitcairn and the
British-French Condominium of the New Hebrides. This was the only French territory mentioned.
It asked the same thing of all the territories—that they be invited to express their wishes for self-determination and independence.
The committee asked that the Nauruans be given control of their phosphate; that the Cooks, Niue and the Tokelaus should not be denied in dependence on the grounds of limited resources or size; that UN assistance be given American Samoa to allow it to express itself on its future status; that “urgent steps” towards independence be taken in Guam, the New Hebrides, GEIC, BSIP and Pitcairn.
On the last four territories it was suggested that a visit by the UN would be useful.