ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the evolving British “official mind” when it came to the campaign for equivalency of United Nations (UN) treatment of dependent territories, which moved from initial opposition based on legal principles through fervent defense of the nation’s colonial record, eventual acceptance of a modest but nonthreatening UN interest, and finally procedural resistance to measures designed to effect a real UN role. Along the way, it sheds light on the cultural prejudices that informed British resistance to equivalency as officials in London sought to prevent what they saw as international encroachment on their national prerogatives.
