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Even in its first decade the UN had had to deal with conflicts resulting from the process of decolonization. The disputes about the withdrawal of French forces from Lebanon and Syria in 1946, about Indonesia, Kashmir and even Palestine (previously held as a mandated territory by Britain) were all connected with the ending of colonial rule within those territories. But for the most part during that earlier decade differences concerning decolonization had not yet come to a head. From about the mid-1950s this situation began to change. Conflict within those territories, whether it was over the kind of change required, the pace of change, or the necessity of any change at all, became increasingly intense. And more and more such issues began to be raised in the United Nations.
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Luard, E. (1989). North Africa. In: A History of the United Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20030-6_4
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