MANDATORY SYSTEM

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 66, 14 September 1929, Page 9

MANDATORY SYSTEM

PARR ON PARTNERSHIP

NEED FOR SYMPATHY

Australian Press Association.

(Beceived 14th September, 1 p.m.) GENEVA, 13th September. Sir James Parr, in a vigorous speech' before the Sixth Committee in connection with Dr. Nansen's annual report on the mandates, was often applauded by British. Dominion delegate^, He said that he dia not' wonder that a section of Bintish opinion almost regretted Britain taking over the mandates,' but neither Britain nor the Dominions would hand back the mandates. (Applause.) "I am glad to say," he added, that Britain will continue to administer Palestine." (Applause.) Sir James Parr pointed out that th» mandatory system was a new method unknown before the war. Its success depended on illimitable patience. He was convinced that success would ultimately come. The world must recognise that Britain and the Dominions had undertaken'a great problem, and should sympathise with them.- NewZealand regarded the question of sovereignty as at present academic, and attached a greater importance to discharging her mandate as a trustee and guardian. The mandatory system would justify itself provided the. Mandates' Commission and mandatories worked in sympathetic partnership.