The United Nations and Colonialism: A Tentative Appraisal

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Karan Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Full Measure ◽  
High Rate ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The United Nations

Colonialism, at least as it is generally defined in the United Nations as Western rule of non-metropolitan areas, is rapidly being brought to a close. As a consequence, within a few years some of the activities of the United Nations will be reduced to almost insignificant proportions. Seven of the eleven territories that were once included within the trusteeship system have already achieved self-government or independence, and another, Ruanda-Urundi, will soon attain that goal. Unless new territories are added, only Nauru, New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands will remain under trusteeship. The list of territories which according to the General Assembly are subject to the provisions of Chapter XI of the Charter has not been cut as drastically, but in terms of the number of people involved, the reduction is equally impressive. Even with the high rate of population growth and the addition of the Spanish and Portuguese dependencies, the number of people living in such areas is about one-fifth of the 1946 figure of 215,000,000. With a few important exceptions such as Kenya, Uganda, Nyasaland and the Rhodesias, and Angola and Mozambique, the territories which in the UN's view “have not yet attained a full measure of self-government” are small and have populations of less than one million. It has already been recommended that the future of the Department of Trusteeship and Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories and the possibility of allocating its duties to other departments be reviewed in the light of these developments.

Trusteeship Council

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-550
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
New Item

The fourteenth session of the Trusteeship Council was held at United Nations headquarters from June 2 to July 16, 1954. At the opening meeting Miguel R. Urquía (El Salvador) was elected president and Léon Pignon (France) vicepresident. The Council accepted an Indian proposal to include a new item in the agenda of the fourteenth session: “General Assembly resolution 751 (VIII): revision of the Questionnaire relating to Trust Territories: interim report of the Sub-Committee on the Questionnaire”, and subsequently adopted an agenda of 18 items. The greater part of the session was devoted to the examination of annual reports on the administration of the trust territories of Somaliland, the Pacific Islands, Western Samoa, New Guinea, and Nauru; a number of questions referred to it by the General Assembly were also dealt with by the Council, which in its closing meeting decided to defer until the Council's fifteenth session a decision on a French proposal that at least one of the Council's annual sessions should be held at Geneva.

Trusteeship Council

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-648 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa

The Trusteeship Council held its 26th session at UN Headquarters in New York from April 14 to June 30, 1960. At its opening meeting, the 1051st, the Council adopted its provisional agenda, which included consideration of the most recent annual reports of the administering authorities on the trust territories of Ruanda-Urundi, Tanganyika, the Cameroons under United Kingdom administration, New Guinea, Nauru, the Pacific Islands, Somaliland under Italian administration, and Western Samoa, as well as examination of petitions, reports of UN visiting missions to Ruanda-Urundi and Tanganyika in 1960, matters referred to the Council by the General Assembly and the Secretary General, the report of the UN Advisory Council for Somaliland under Italian administration, and reports of various committees of the Council.

Trusteeship Council

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-626 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa

The Trusteehip Council held its 24th session at UN Headquarters in New York from June 2 to August 6, 1959. At its opening meeting, the 967th, the Council adopted its provisional agenda which included examination of the annual reports of the administering authorities on the trust territories of Ruanda-Urundi, Togoland under French administration, New Guinea, Nauru, the trust territory of the Pacific Islands, Somaliland under Italian administration, and Western Samoa, as well as consideration of petitions, matters referred to the Council by the General Assembly, reports of visiting missions, the report of the UN Advisory Council for the Trust Territory of Somaliland under Italian administration, and reports of various committees of the Council.

2. Report by the Trusteeship Council to the Security Council on Strategic Areas Under Trusteeship, July 22, 1949

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 758-761
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Educational Advancement ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Fourth Session

In accordance with Article 83 of the Charter, and with the resolution adopted by the Security Council at its 415th meeting on 8 March 1949 and the resolution adopted by the Trusteeship Council at the forty-sixth meeting of its fourth session on 24 March 1949, the Trusteeship Council has carried out on behalf of the Security Council those functions of the United Nations under the International Trusteeship System relating to political, economic, social and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, designated as a strategic area.

Trusteeship Council

1958 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-145
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa

The Trusteeship Council held its twentieth session at UN headquarters from May 20 to July 16, 1957, under the presidency of Mr. John D. L. Hood (Australia). The provisional agenda, amended and subsequently adopted by the Council, included the examination of annual reports on the administration of Tanganyika, New Guinea, Nauru, the trust territory of the Pacific Islands, Somaliland under Italian administration, and Western Samoa, as well as the consideration of matters referred to the Council by the General Assembly, petitions relating to the trust territories, and reports from the Council's various committees.

Trusteeship Council

1958 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-528
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa

The Trusteeship Council held its 22d session at UN headquarters from June 9 to August 5, 1958, under the presidency of Mr. Claeys Bouuaert (Belgium). The provisional agenda which the Council adopted included the examination of the annual reports on the administration of Togoland under French administration, New Guinea, Nauru, the Pacific Islands, Somaliland under Italian administration, and Western Samoa, as well as petitions relating to trust territories, arrangements for periodic visiting missions to trust territories in West Africa and in the Pacific in 1958 and 1959 respectively, matters referred to the Council by the General Assembly, and other matters.

6. Trusteeship Agreement for the Former Japanese Mandated Islands Approved at the One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Security Council, April 2,1947.

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 410-414
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Second World War ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administration And Supervision ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World

WHEREAS Article 75 of the Charter of the United Nations provides for the establishment of an international trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed thereunder by subsequent agreements; andWHEREAS under Article 77 of the said Charter the trusteeship system may be applied to territories now held under mandate; andWHEREAS on 17 December 1920 the Council of the League of Nations confirmed a mandate for the former German islands north of the equator to Japan, to be administered in accordance with Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations; andWHEREAS Japan, as a result of the Second World War, has ceased to exercise any authority in these islands;NOW, THEREFORE, the Security Council of the United Nations, having satisfied itself that the relevant articles of the Charter have been complied with, hereby resolves to approve the following terms of trusteeship for the Pacific Islands formerly under mandate to Japan.

Trusteeship Council

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 845-861 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
General Assembly Resolution

The Trusteeship Council held its 29th session at UN Headquarters in New York from June 5 to July 25, 1962. At its opening meeting, the 1180th, the Council adopted its provisional agenda, which included consideration of the most recent annual reports of the administering authorities on the trust territories of Ruanda-Urundi, the Pacific Islands, Nauru, and New Guinea, as well as examination of petitions and the reports of the UN Visiting Mission to Nauru and New Guinea. It also contained reports on the attainment of self-government or independence by trust territories pursuant to Trusteeship Council Resolution 1369 (XVII) and General Assembly Resolution 1413 (XIV); and it included reports on the situations in trust territories with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, as well as reports of various committees of the Council.

7. United States Proposal on Trusteeship in the Pacific, as Transmitted to the Members of the Security Council, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-222
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Second World War ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administration And Supervision ◽  
Second World

Whereas, Article 75 of the Charter of the United Nations provides for the establishment of an international trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed thereunder by subsequent agreements; andWhereas, under Article 77 of the said Charter the trusteeship may be applied to territories now held under mandate; andWhereas, on Dec. 17,1920 the Council of the League of Nations confirmed a mandate for the former German islands north of the Equator to Japan, to be administered in accordance with Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations; and Whereas, Japan, as a result of the Second World War, has ceased to exercise any authority in these islands;Now therefore, the Security Council of the United Nations, having satisfied itself that the relevant articles of the Charter have been complied with, hereby resolves to approve the following terms of trusteeship for the Pacific Islands formerly under mandate to Japan.

Trusteeship Council

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-156
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
International Bank ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
Unification Problem

The eighteenth session of the Trusteeship Council was held at Headquarters from June 7 through August 14, 1956, under the presidency of Mr. Asha (Syria). The Council adopted an agenda of nineteen items, and devoted the greater part of the session to an examination of the annual reports on the administration of the trust territories of Togoland under United Kingdom administration, New Guinea, Nauru, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Somaliland under Italian administration, and Western Samoa. The Council also dealt with a number of questions referred to it by the General Assembly, including the Togoland unification problem and the future of Togoland under United Kingdom and under French administration. Before concluding the session the Council also took action on petitions relating to trust territories, and decided to hold its sixth special session for the purpose of considering the report of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Somaliland under Italian administration.

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