Transition Period
T is essential that the United Nations | agree*to a transition period to follow the surrender’ of their enemies. During this transition period the United Nations would have ,a chance to complete the first and most urgent military steps required; to correct the cardinal territorial errors of the past; to carry out such transfers of populations as may be necessary; to conclude the more immediate programmes for rehabilitation and. reconstruction; and to pave the way for their ultimate assumption of international trusteeship over such dependent peoples as are not yet ready to enjoy the rights of self-government. During this period, as the hatreds and bitternesses engendered by the war years gradually burn themselves out, the United Nations can, little by little, determine the specific machinery needed for a permanent and effective international organisation. Before and during the transition period, there must be effectively functioning some executive agency of the United Nations able to make _politcal and military decisions for all of them. At the present moment no such executive agency exists. It is lamentable that this
executive agency should not have been set up for some time in order that it might carry over from the war into the post-armistice period. For it is inconceivable that the United Nations, let alone the few remaining neutral states, will reconcile themselves to being dominated for an indefinite period by a dictatorship composed of the four great powers. They are not fighting a war to liberate themselves from the domination of Hitlerism solely to replace the Axis tyranny with a new form of world dictatorship. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 307, 11 May 1945, Page 11
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263Transition Period New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 307, 11 May 1945, Page 11
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