LEAGUE OF NATIONS
WILSON ON POWERS OF LEAGUE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Washington, Aug. 21. President Wilson, replying to a written question from senators, said that the President had no power to declare peace by proclamation, and he would not consent to any such suggestion. It was questionable whether the League of Nations could be created by three or more nations adhering to the Paris covenant. President Wilson, explaining the mandatory system, pointed out that the German colonies were only provisionally granted to their present mandatories, which were subject to the League of Nations a» trustees. No legal title to the ex-German territories had been vested in Britain, Australia, South Africa, or New Zealand.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1919, Page 5
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