United States policy regarding questions relating to the establishment of an international trusteeship system under the United Nations Charter; President Truman’s declaration of November 6 proposing a strategic area trusteeship with the United States as administering authority for the Pacific islands formerly under mandate to Japan

[Pertinent documentation in Department’s files 890.0146 and 740.00119 Council and in the files of the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee (SWNCC) relating to interdepartmental consideration of some of the issues treated in this section has been omitted under the provisions of Department of State Regulation 1352, ante, p. IV.]


[299] Briefing Book Paper

IO Files: USGA/Gen/71


[300] Briefing Book Paper

IO Files: USGA/Gen/7


[301] Briefing Book Paper

IO Files: USGA/Gen/7


[302] Briefing Book Paper

IO Flies: USGA/Gen/7


[304] Extract From Department of State “Radio Bulletin” of January 15, 1946

Files of the Secretary’s Staff Committee: Lot 110: Box 13143


[305] The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State

890.0146/1–1546: Telegram


[306] The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State

890.0146/1–1646: Telegram


[310] United States Delegation Working Paper

IO Files: USTC/Prel/31


[311] The British Ambassador (Halifax) to the Secretary of State

862S.01/2–446


[317] Staff Committee Document SC–192

Secretary’s Staff Committee Files: Lot 122, Box 1314743


[318] Minutes of the One Hundred Ninety-Second Meeting of the Secretary’s Staff Committee, Washington, April 20, 1946, 9:30 a.m.

Secretary’s Staff Committee Files: Lot 122: Box 13147


[323] The British Embassy to the Department of State

862P.01/5–2446


[324] The Department of State to the British Embassy

862P.01/5–2446


[327] Draft Trusteeship Agreement for Tanganyika

London Embassy Files (1946): 800–Trusteeship

  1. The master files of the Reference and Documents Section of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State.
  2. The Secretary’s Staff Committee was responsible for “advising and otherwise assisting the Secretary of State in determining current and long-range foreign policy”. For the composition of this committee, see footnote 46, p. 569.