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Operation of the International Trusteeship System II

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In surveying the present political, economic, social and educational conditions in the Trust Territories, we must constantly bear in mind that: (a) the present stage of development is the result of the „sole“ Trusteeship of thirty-five years in nine Trust Territories except Italian Somaliland and the former Japanese Mandated Islands in the Pacific under the administration of the United States; (b) the absence of homogeneity among the indigenous populations and the presence of non-indigenous groups such as the Europeans and the Asians, as administrators, teachers and traders among the inhabitants of these Territories. Besides, about three per cent of the area (1,150 square miles containing 107,131 people) of the British Cameroons and approximately ten per cent (8,500 square miles) of the Trust Territory of New Guinea under Australian administration are still considered in official terminology as „unsettled districts“ and „restricted areas“ respectively. The latter area is not under the administrative control or influence of the Trustee Power.1 Moreover, about 70 per cent of the Somali inhabitants are either nomads or semi-nomads.2

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