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                                      I
 
                   Political Development
 
 
     1.  It is the duty of all authorities responsible
for the administration of dependent peoples to foster
the development of political institutions suited to
their needs and to develop in them the capacity for
self-government.  To this end they should:
 
     (a)   Safeguard the political and civil rights of
             the inhabitants of dependent territories,
             including freedom of speech, press, and
             assembly, and of worship and religious
             teaching;
 
     (b)   Give due consideration in the evolution of 
             forms of self-government, to the cultural
             development and traditional institutions
             of the people:
 
     (c)   Promote the development of organs of local
             self-government, the extension of the fran-
             chise where and as feasible, and the 
             increasing participation of the people in the
             various branches of government and public
             service and in the activities of any regional
             institutions which may be established in the
             area; and
     (d)   Arrange, with due consideration always for
             the wider interests of the world community,
             that peoples which desire to be self-governing
             and which have acquired and hae demonstrated
             adequate capacity, shall become self-governing,
             on the basis either of independence or of
             autonomous association with other peoples
             within a state or a grouping of states.
 
     2.   It is the duty of those peoples which aspire to
self-government or to independence to make every effort
to prepare themselves for the corresponding duties and 
responsibilities and to demonstrate their capacity to 
maintain stable government and to safeguard political
and civil rights of the inhabitants.
 
                                     II.  Economic