Trusteeship Council

Upon its return in December 1952 to United Nations headquarters, the Visiting Mission to Trust Territories in West Africa, 1952, prepared its report to the Trusteeship Council. Departing fom New York on August 18, 1952, the mission travelled through Togoland under United Kingdom administration, Togoland under French administration, the Cameroons under French administration, and the Cameroons under United Kingdom administration, and returned to New York on December 5, after visits to London and Paris. The mission, arrangements for which had been decided upon at the tenth session of the Trusteeship Council in March 1952, divided its report into five selfcontained parts, one on each of the four trust territories visited and one on procedures of visiting missions. At meetings of the mission on March 4 and 5, 1953, these five reports were approved unanimously and submitted to the Council in accordance with the mission's terms of reference. These reports were to be considered by the Trusteeship Council at its twelfth session, scheduled to begin on June 16, 1953.