The Limitations of Collective Security: the United States and the Micronesian Trusteeship, 1945-1947

Friedman, Hal M. (1995). "The Limitations of Collective Security: the United States and the Micronesian Trusteeship, 1945-1947". ISLA: A Journal of Micronesian Studies. 3 (2): 339–370. ISSN 1054-9390.

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Abstract: Between 1945 and 1947, the United States sought an exclusive strategic trusteeship over Micronesia. Tensions developed, however, within the US government over settling for a trusteeship arrangement under the United Nations versus annexation of the island groups. Eventually, the United States opted for a strategic trusteeship, but not before differences surfaced within the executive departments and between the United States and the Soviet Union over trusteeship or annexation of Micronesia. A little-known aspect of the early Cold War, this controversy involved Great Power conflict over the issues of US imperialism, superpower tensions, and Pacific Basin colonialism.