FRENCH RESPONSE

Evening Star, Issue 25700, 25 January 1946, Page 5

FRENCH RESPONSE

TRUSTEESHIPS RECOGNISED (New Zealand Official News Service.) (Rec. 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 24. The French delegation to the United Nations General Assembly this afternoon responded to the appeal by the New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, for clarification of France's intentions regarding the West African mandates of Togo and Cameroons with a declaration implying that the French Government intended to recognise the authority of. the Trusteeship Council in respect of these mandates. The representative of France on the Trusteeship Committee stated the opinion of his Government—and thus categorically agreed with Mr Fraser ou this point—that no nation had a moral right to, appropriate territories entrusted to it by agreement at the 'end of the 1914-18 war He said his Government intended that the responsibility entrusted to it in respect "of* the mandated territories concerned would from now on be carried out under the regime of the Trusteeship Council. The French Government would accordingly study the terms of trusteeship agreements required in the case of Togo and Cameroons