Editorial Note
On November 13 the General Assembly approved a recommendation by the General Committee that the Peruvian membership item, the joint membership item submitted by El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and the Nicaraguan item associating itself with the joint proposal, be included under one title: “Admission of New Members, including the right of candidate States to present proof of the conditions required under Article 4 of the Charter”. The General Assembly then referred the item to the First Committee for consideration and report. The First Committee, however, did not address itself to the membership item until January 18, 1952; see pages 425 ff.
In the meantime, in mid-November, the locus of action on the membership question shifted to the Fourth Committee and consideration of the question of the full participation of Italy in the work of the Trusteeship Council.