Trusteeship :  a paradox 

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<br/><br/> The Rotary Balita no. 676 (July 19, 1951) 
<br/><br/> In darkest Africa-in the far-flung isles of the Pacific-the most backward peoples in the world enjoy the most advanced position in the world community. It is the paradox of the United Nations trusteeship system!  Think of their advantages! As individual persons, their petitions receive international attention. Each year, their rulers must account for their behavior to the United Nations. Periodically, they are visited by U.N. missions to make sure that their human rights are protected, their economic interests preserved, and their educational and political opportunities improved. No other persons in the world can boast such international concern for their well-being-such international recognition of their identity.  Why then - at mid-passage of its ninth session at Flushing Meadow, New York-should the Trusteeship Council claim particular attention? Not merely because it supervises administration over twenty million backward people. The trusteeship provisions of the United Nations Charter are very broad. They can be stretched to include the inhabitants of disputed areas. Also, they could be stretched to include advanced people anywhere in the world - perhaps, even the reader and the members of his club.  It has been said that turning your back on one problem brings you face-to-face with another.  It has been said: "Six-syllable words are too often the exhaust of a one-cylinder man."