Micronesia and Strategic Trusteeship: a Case Study in American Politico-military Relations
Wyttenbach, Richard Harrington (1970-03-01). Micronesia and Strategic Trusteeship: a Case Study in American Politico-military Relations (Thesis). Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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Abstract: This thesis is a historical study of the decision-making process within the United States Government that led to the placing of these islands under a United Nations strategic trustee- ship with the United States as the administering authority and to the selection of the governmental agency responsible for their administration.
"...The only feasible alternatives for the postwar disposition of the former Japanese mandated islands proved to be either annexation or their placement under either a regular or strategic United Nations trusteeship. Some decision had to be reached; and the United States, as the conqueror of the islands and as the primary power of the victorious partners, had the responsibility to make it. If the United States were to be the administering authority, whether under some form of international trusteeship or by right of annexation, then a governmental agency had to be selected to be responsible for the islands' administration. Thus, the entire question of the postwar disposition of the former Japanese mandated islands divides into two main rounds of decision-making..."
"...First, the decision had to be reached whether the islands should be annexed or included in some form of trusteeship system. This round subdivides into two questions. The first question started in 1942 and concerned the drafting of the trustee- ship provisions in the United Nations Charter. This question was not resolved until the San Francisco Conference in 1945. The other question was whether or not to actually include the islands within the trusteeship system which had been written into the United Nations Charter. This question also started in 1942 but was not resolved until October 1946. This first round of decision-making was a clear case of conflicting concepts about the correct way to promote world peace and security..."
"...The second main phase of decision-making on the question of the postwar disposition of the conquered Japanese mandated islands concerned the selection of the governmental agency to be responsible for their administration. This policy debate started within each agency during December 1944 but did not reach the inter-agency level until late in 1945. I t was a controversial question immediately following the war. The Interior Department, Navy Department, and the War Department were all interested in administering the islands. This policy debate was settled in Interior's favor in 1951, although the question was reopened in 1953 when some of the islands were returned to naval administration and again in 1962 when those islands were once more placed under Interior administration..."
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