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.]
[389] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Dependent Area Affairs (Gerig)
[New
York,] December 7, 1946.
501.BB/12–746
[390] Memorandum of Conversation
New York, December 9,
1946—3 p.m.
Lot M–88: Box 2080, Folder “Conference of Foreign Ministers Minutes”81
[392] The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Australia (Butler)
Washington, December 9,
1946—10 a.m.
711.47/12–546: Telegram
[393] Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State (Acheson) to President Truman
[Washington,] December 11, 1946.
890.0146/12–746
[394] Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs (Hiss)
[Washington,] December 24, 1946.
890.0146/12–2446
- For documentation on the New York meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, November 4–December 12, 1946, see vol. ii, pp. 965 ff.↩