POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: New World A-Comin'
POLICIES & PRINCIPLES
In the United Nations Charter, nations entrusted with the care of dependent peoples are pledged "to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions, according to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and their varying stages of advancement."
Last week in London the trusteeship committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission was discussing a proposal which would permit African natives to elect spokesmen to appear before UNO. Up jumped South Africa's hardbitten, outspoken George Heaton Nicholls. Cried he: "To invite natives to get up on platforms and express their wishes would result in chaos in Africa."
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