Trustee and Guardian

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 11

Trustee and Guardian

NO SHIRKING ON MANDATES

Parr Wins Applause

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association)

(United Service)

Received 9.40 a.m. GENEVA, Friday. THE New Zealand High Commissionei’, Sir James Parr, * made a vigorous speech in the Sixth Committee of the Teague Assembly, iu connection with Dr. Fridtjof Nansen’s annual report on mandates, and was often applauded.

The British Dominion delegates, lie said, did not wonder that a section of British opinion almost regretted Britain’s taking over of mandates, but neither Britain nor the Dominions will hand back the mandates. (Applause.) “I am glad to say that Britain will continue to administer Palestine,” he added, amid more applause. Sir James pointed out that the mandatory system was a new method. It was unknown before the war. Its success depended upon illimitable

patience. He was convinced that success would ultimately come. “The world must recognise that Britain’s Dominions have undertaken a great problem and should sympathise with them.” New Zealand regarded the question of sovereignty at present as academic. It attached greater importance to discharging the mandate as trustee and guardian. The mandatory system would justify itself provided that the Mandates Commission and the mandatories worked in sympathetic partnership.