SIR JOSEPH COOK'S DOUBTS
A LEAP IN THE DARK.
LONDON, 30th January
Sir Joseph Cook is not (without hope that the ultimate results of the Peace Conference will be satisfactory to Australia. He confesses he is not enamoured of the policy of mandatories in the Pacific, but believes that when finality is reached nothing untoward will be decided so far as the Pacific is concerned. It is difficult to understand the practicability of the mandatories policy anywhere, but particularly in the remote Pacific, inasmuch a 6 a mandatory Power presumably will he subject to the League of Nations, whose constitution is unknown, its powers undefined, and its policy unguessable. Anything short of direct control will be for Australia and Britain a leap in the dark.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 28, 1 February 1919, Page 5
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