BRITAIN'S MANDATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 72, 26 March 1921, Page 7

BRITAIN'S MANDATES.

J DRAFTING THE"^DETAILS. LONDON". March 24. •' Mr W. (1. A. C-rmesbv-Gore. spea-kitig l; in the House of ( oinmuns. said be hoped that tne i oil eminent would treat.: a - Select ( omniitter, to ,i,ncli all draft V mandates should be referr.-d. I/.rtl Robert i eril concurred. He said -i it uas essential that mandates should lie submitted '.o tiie House before the country was a.sked to take up tbe obligation. Hobert Cecil condemned the agreeim-nt with Persia. Tlie sooner, he j said, we freed oursvlvrs frnm obligation I there the liettcr it would be for both j countries. Lieutenant •( oloit. 1 L. C. *M. V Amrry. t ; l'nder-Si-.-.-1-tari- rf state for the Col'o- , nies. replying, referred to the mandate "i f."- Mesopotamia. It was the GovernJ nn ill's policy to null.- the country self--1 j •_'■•■ '■riling -nr.n as po-ii !.-. Mr. ■ Winston t hurchill had telegraphed that Ihe iiitend.-d to -.-•nre :li.- most drastic [ireductii.ii of expenditure It was quite i I impracticable tba* cither tlie House or a committee should divide details of tbe ' ! mandate. The House had accepted re- ! spoiisibilit- for the administration of jthc countries. The d"':i-'U i . vir 1 only be undertaken by the llnv»rnrai.|tt rr its i dependents.— (A. and N".Z. < abl". I