MANDATE TRUSTEES

Evening Star, Issue 25699, 24 January 1946, Page 5

MANDATE TRUSTEES

FRANCE WILL ADHERE TO CHARTER ? UNEQUIVOCAL ASSURANCE (Rec. 10.25 a.m.). LONDON, Jan. 23. France agreed to place the mandates of Togolanu and the Cameroons under trusteeship, said the French delegate, M. Henri P.onsot, at a meeting of U.N.O.'s Trusteeship Committee. He added that he wished to dissipate doubts regarding France's intentions. He would like to adhere to Mr Eraser's particularly expressive passage that no Power had a moral right to appropriate mandated territories without due cause. France would respect both the spirit and the letter of the Charter. Mr Attlee, in a statement in the Commons on the trusteeship provisions of the United Nations Charter, said the Emir Abdullah of Traiisjordan had accepted aii invitation to visit London and consider Transjordan's independence. Regarding Tanganyika, Togoland, and the Cameroons, Mr Attlee said the Government, in consultation with the Governors, had drawn up draft terms of trusteeship, generally based on the mandate, but revised to bring them into conformity with the provisions of the United Nations Charter. The inhabitants of these territories would continue British-protected persons of exactly the same status as the inhabitants of any British protectorate. There were certain States which must be regarded as directly concerned in the African-mandated territories. They were France, in respect of Togoland and the Cameroons, Belgium in respect of Tanganyika, and South Africa in respect of all three. The draft terms of trusteeship had been sent to the Governments of these States for their observations. Copies of the draft had been sent for information only at this stage to the Governments of Russia, China, and Amercia, and in respect of Tanganyika, to Eraiuce*