BRITAIN WILL OPPOSE CONTROL OF COLONIES
(11 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 29. Britain at a special United Nations’ Colonial Committee meeting in Geneva on September 2 will continue to oppose any suggestion that the United Nations has any right of control or supervision over the British colonial Empire. A Colonial Office statement says that the only specific obligation which colonial Powers have undertaken towards the United Nations is to send information regarding economic, social and educational conditions in the territories for which they are responsible. Certain United Nations’ delegations had since tried to carry the United Nations’ Assembly towards the establishment of supervision over colonial administration. The statement concluded: —“Not only is there no warrant for intervention in the United Nations’ charter, but colonial peoples themselves would resent interposition between colonies and their mother country of an international political assembly, which bears no direct responsibility for the outcome of its decisions.” ■
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22729, 30 August 1948, Page 5
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