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Trusteeship and the linked issue of decolonization, which couldn't
be called that, were extremely important because you had an
issue on which the United States disagreed with its European
allies, particularly the British and the French, who were colonial
powers, who weren't at all anxious to have the Charter more
or less demolish their empires. So that these were very hot
issues, and very much debated, and probably in one way almost
the most difficult issues in the conference because they were
new. And I think it was one of Harold Stassen's and Bunche's
great achievements that they did manage, after an enormous amount
of work, to reconcile all of the various proposals that had
been made, particularly on the Trusteeship system, and get them
into an agreed document which is one of the chapters of the
Charter.
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