NAURU ISLAND
4 WHERE BRIfAIN GOT THE TITLE ] FROM THE ALLIES, NOT THE LEAGUE i When the* Nauru Island account was being: considered in the House of Eepresentatives early on Saturday morning, Mr. H. E. Holland (Buller) read a letter containing a statement that Britain, Australia, and New Zealand had not got a proper mandate from the League of Nations to use Nauru Island. Tho letter suggested that the States of tho Empire i were not entitled to make thp use they ■ proposed to make of Nauru Island. Mr. Massey replied that the writer of i the letter was cither very -biased or en- 1 tirely ignorant of tho facts. "It is abso- . lute nonsense to say that we should hold our titie from the League of Nations, i lie said. '"The League has no title to ft?e. We get cur title from the , Allied Iwers, which is quite another > thing. If the League of Nations went out of existence to-morrow it would make 110 ; difference to us. The understanding was that the conditions on which we hold the I island we're to be drawn up by tlie i League. But the League has never done ■ this. It drew up a draft mandate, winch ! *was telegraphed to us, but it has not i produced the formal document. Some 1 writers seem to think that the Ix?ngilß ■ of Nations is ft sort of superior Power, ' which could turn us out of Nauru 1»- ■ land or other ex-German possessions at I anytime. That'is not tliei position. Wo hold our title from the Allied Powers 1 The League counts for very little, lhe ' member for Buller seems to think that ' S™ Islnnd belongs to the League of : Nations. That is not so. • Mr. Holland: Ton are "sponsibe o 1 the League as far as the natives of tho i "S 1 SKTrS?"K » ' to freat the ; ssr.?.,<?« <° »'£ s 1 the Allied and Associated Powers all her : ' rights over overseas possessions.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 6
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326NAURU ISLAND Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 6
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