Editorial Note
On July 23 and July 24 the Trusteeship Council received and discussed the joint Anglo-French draft resolution (Doc. T/L.212), and the amendment to the draft submitted concurrently by the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and the United States (Doc. T/L. 213). The Council on July 24 adopted the amendment, in turn amended in two places by Argentine motion; and then proceeded to adopt the joint Anglo-French draft resolution as amended. In support of the three-power amendment, the United States Representative (Sayre) made a strong statement on July 24 explaining that the United States “was deeply concerned with the problem of the Ewes and of the peoples of the two Togolands” and that this Government was convinced that the powers of the new proposed Joint Council should be broadened to include “all questions of common concern to the inhabitants of both Territories” (that is, political as well as economic and social questions). For the proceedings of the Trusteeship Council on this matter, see TC (IX), 379th meeting, page 296, and TC (IX), 380th meeting, pages 297–304.