Abstract
session of the General Assembly is best identified by its handling of some major issue such as disarmament, Palestine, or Korea. The Eleventh was no exception and will certainly be linked with the double crisis of Hungary and the Middle East, which understandably occupied so much of its time. It will also be closely studied in future as a guide to a new pattern of voting which developed during its sessions resulting from the one-third increase in membership which has occurred since December, 1955. There was a third phase of its activities which passed almost unnoticed in Canada, but which evoked keen interest from New Delhi to Addis Ababa. This phase was concerned with colonial issues, the special province, in the first instance, of the Fourth or Trusteeship Committee, which held the record number of one hundred meetings during the Eleventh Assembly. Its closely argued and occasionally acrimonious debates over the release from trusteeship of the first Trust Territory, British Togoland, over the despatch of a special committee to study the situation in another territory, French Togoland, which was requesting the termination of its subordination, over the determination of a new member, Portugal, not to come under the purview of the Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories and over the Soviet-inspired resolution for the speedy termination of trusteeship in Africa seldom received attention in the press of North America, but made a decided impression upon opinion in Europe, Asia and Africa. It is with these developments that this article is concerned. At the initial session of the Fourth Committee its newlyelected chairman, a former foreign minister of the Dominican
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