CROWN COLONIES.
" To talk of the Crown Colonies being handed over wholesale as Mandates to the League is to presume that the peoples can be treated as mere chattels. But We are bound to consult their wishes, and I have no doubt that, if we were to do so, we should flnd the vast majority of them content and anxious to stay in their present situation, To say that implies no oriticism of the Mandate System. In faot, the sentiment of the people in the Colonies is due to our havine for a long time past in our Colonial Government practised the vefv prineiples laid doym by the League of Nations for the government of Mandated territories. We have aoted primarily as trustees for the welfare and happiness of the peoples in the Colonies, and thev have a lively appreciation of the many benefits which they have re ceived Under the British Crown.'^r M&lcQlBuM^lonald, £al$niai
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 61, 30 March 1937, Page 4
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