THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT
NAURU MANDATES.
[•‘RBDTEII’s” TELEGRAM.]
(Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 7
In the Commons Standing Committee considering the Nauru Island agreement Bill, Lord Robert Cecil moved an amendment making the agreement subject to the provisions of article twentytwo of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
Mr Rees asked if it was seriously contended that when the mandate was granted to a great nation for the admin, istration of the territory, it must come to the Council of the League for approval of any action taken.
Mr Leslie Wilson, in charge of the Bill, disagreed with the amendment. Ho said if the Government accepted il, it s acceptance would involve the admis. sion that the agreement did not accord with the Treaty. The agreement was signed by the Premiers of Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and the Peace Treaty bore the same signatures. To accept such an Amendment would suguest that those gentlemen were not prepared to honor their pledges. If Lord Cecil accepted the assurance that they were prepared to carry out th e Peace Treaty, his amendment was unnecessary. Along discussion followed, and the amendment was eneriod by 165 to 13.
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