NO SURRENDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 9

NO SURRENDER.

Australian Attitude to Return I Of Mandates. "TUNING IN WITH BRITAIN." SYDXEY, February ■">. The "Sydney Morning Herald" says the coming Imperial Conference or discussions outside it should provide opportunities for the Prime Minister, Mr. T. A. Lyons, if the Government's mind is made up, to convey that in no civ-! cumstanees will Australia consider the surrender of her mandate in Xew Guinea to Germany, especially to a Germany which has 'made a treaty with Japan, the full terms of which have not been disclosod.

■ "Germany possibly lias done us a service by raising this question," says the newspaper, "because the recent official disposition in Canberra toward •cocking a snook" at the Mother Country —in the assertion of some local right to deny, when it suits us, the principle of Imperial co-operation—may now become more subdued.

"When (lie subject of discussion is immigration we try to avoid it; if it lie the investment of British capital there is a curious eagerness to prefer American capital. The British air mail scheme met with oflleia) opposition here, as sturdy as it was stupid, for over two years.

"The slogan: 'Tuning in with Britain' petered out when we had converted cur London loans and secured our meal for Xew Guinea may set it atluttering