FRITZ AND THE MANDATES

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 4

FRITZ AND THE MANDATES

Always remembering that Geneva, as the. hub of the League of Notions as. well as Nations,, is a place of compromises we think New Zealanders are entitled to gel a statement Iroin Premier Coates as to just how much truth or falsehood there is in the cabled, message that Germany has secured a seat on the Mandated Territories Committee of the League. A previous report to Paris ol tho proceedings of the Council at Genova had stated that Dr. Stresemann, probably tho most astute ol all Germany’s clever delegates, has pressed Britain’s and France’s delegations to nominate him for a seat. The report added that neither Sir Austen Chamberlain nor Austides Briand held out any hope • ol Fritz being placed in a. position, whence he could intrigue towards the lulfdment of his great objective in. joining the Lea-gue-—to get hack all the colonies overseas Mint she lost as a penalty

for the, Croat War. The Mandated Commit too controls Now Zealand's control of Samoa,, Australia’s control of Tapi,a, and Japan’s oooupa* lion of ilia ATni’shnil group in fho Pacific . Eternal vigila.nee of Fritz’s moves is the price of holding those mandates.