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the proposed resolution a very great danger that the United Nations was being asked to foster the attainment of these aims by unconstitutional rather than constitutional means. The delegates of the United States pointed out that the chapters of the Charter relating to non-self-governing territories placed such territories for the purpose of the United Nations into two distinct categories. The first included territories under trusteeship in respect of which the United Nations had a duty of supervision. The second comprised all other non-self-governing territories in respect of which States members of the United Nations had accepted a unilateral obligation to apply certain principles of administration, but without ascribing any supervisory function to the United Nations. The provisions of the Charter in this regard depend in the last resort for their effectiveness upon the cooperation of participating Governments, who have not undertaken to share their authority with the General Assembly. In due course it was recognized that there was no dissent on the part of any delegation from the general purport of the resolution. The issue was to find a proper means of giving expression to it. Several amendments to the Committee's proposal were put forward from the floor of the Assembly. That which was eventually put to the vote and adopted was an amendment which had been suggested in Committee by the Cuban delegation. It provided for the deletion of the proposal that the Economic and Social Council should organize a conference, in favour of a recommendation to " members having or assuming responsibilities for the administration of non-self-governing territories " that they should " convene conferences of representatives of non-self-governing peoples chosen or preferably elected in such a way that the representation of the people will be ensured to the extent that the particular conditions of the territory concerned permit, in order that the letter and spirit of Chapter XI of the Charter may be accomplished and that the wishes and aspirations of the non-self-governing peoples may be expressed." This amendment was adopted by a vote of 23 for, 14 against, 17 abstentions, New .Zealand voting with the majority. The resolution as a whole was then put and adopted by a vote of 31 for, 1 against, 21 abstentions, New Zealand voting again with the majority. General observations There was at this Assembly a noticeable tendency on the part of a number of delegations whose Governments are not responsible for the administration of dependent territories to regard such administration as necessarily suspect, and to call for early and immediate changes, and the approach of many delegations to the whole question seemed to be more on a basis of very natural, but rather superficial, emotion than of the actual circumstances of the territories under discussion. There was a