501.BB/11–646: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to Senator Austin
u.s. urgent
271. USdel. The President will make the following announcement today:
“The United States is prepared to place under trusteeship with the United States as the administering authority, the Japanese Mandated Islands and any Japanese Islands for which it assumes responsibilities as a result of the second World War. In so far as the Japanese Mandated Islands are concerned this Government is transmitting for information to the other members of the Security Council and to New Zealand and the Philippines a draft of a strategic area trusteeship agreement which sets forth the terms upon which this Government [Page 675] is prepared to place those islands under trusteeship.53 At an early date we plan to submit this draft agreement formally to the Security Council for its approval”.54
In accordance with this announcement I have sent this morning to the missions of the other members of the Security Council and of New Zealand and the Philippines, for the information of their Governments, copies of the draft trusteeship agreement under which our Government is prepared to place the Japanese Mandated Islands under trusteeship. Copies of the draft agreement will be forwarded to the Delegation which may be made available to other Delegations, the press, and the public.
I suggest that at an appropriate time you read the President’s announcement into the records of the General Assembly or of its Fourth Committee.