CONTENTS Page I. Letter to the 1 Minister of External Affairs from Chairman of Delegation .. .. .. .. 5 11. Delegations .. .. .. .. .. 8 111. General Committee .. .. .. .. 8 IV. Elections .. .. .. .. .. .. 9 V. General Debate .. .. .. .. 10 VI. Headquarters Committee .. .. .. .. 11 VII. First Committee : Political and Security Questions .. 12 VIII. Ad Hoc Political Committee .. .. 36 IX. Second Committee : Economic and Financial Questions 68 X. Third Committee : Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Questions .. .. .. .. 77 XI. Joint Meetings of Second and Third Committees 88 XII. Joint Meetings of Second, Third, and Fifth Committees 89 XIII. Fourth Committee : Trusteeship Questions .. ... 92 XIV. Fifth Committee : Administrative and Budgetary Questions .. .. .. .. .. 115 XV. Sixth Committee : Legal Questions .. .. .. 120 Appendix— Speech delivered by the Chairman of the New Zealand Delegation Sir Carl Berendsen, in the General Debate of the Fourth Regular Session of the United Nations, on Thursday, 22 September, 1949 .. .. .. .. 129

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