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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Director of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs ( Wainhouse )

the development of her Cameroons trust territory to fall behind the rate of progress in other parts of Africa. “ Mason Sears , speaking for the United States in the Trusteeship Council, pointed to the signs of early nationhood for the Gold Coast and Nigeria and self-determination for British Togoland and the British Cameroons. “‘We cannot blind ourselves to the complications which could arise if self-government was being achieved by some peoples of West Africa while not yet being fully achieved by others,’ he said. “‘We believe that if such a situation is allowed to drift and becomes unduly pr…