MANDATE SYSTEM
FUTURE WILL BE AT STAKE
IF JAPAN RETAINS JEHOL !
LONDON, April 11, i - Contending that the future .of . th»" ) mandatory system is at , stake, tlia "Manchester Guardian" urges, in aj leading article, that to allow Japaa j to retain the Pacific Islands would be ] to involve an important principle, and j embitter an already ' dangerous situa-; tion. . • ■ ' Japan having appropriated Man*; churia and Jehol,' is hardly likely to | abstain from a. little pilfering at tha . expense of a defenceless aboriginal population, but the argument that the mandates were distributed before the League existed canrfot.stand. .Japan, cannot, it is further con-1 tended, explain away the preamble of j the mandate whereby she agreed to , actfept the mandate on behalf Of tha ' League. ■' - .; Germany, adds the article, is justi« i fled in protesting at this new attempt j to put Japan above the law of tht j nations. - ■ . ~
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1933, Page 11
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148MANDATE SYSTEM Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1933, Page 11
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