MANDATES IN PACIFIC.
—*- —" ■" ""O JAPANESE ATTITUDE.
DEMAND FOE EQUALITY. A. end N.Z. PARIS, Jan. 5The Japanese reservation in respect of the mandates is regarded as a further effort to secure racial recognition. It is anticipated that when the full conference resumes the Japanese will seek to secure recognition of equality in the mandates. Probably they will take the view '■ that the League of Nations should not discriminate between the nationalities included in the league on the question of immigration to man- , datory territories, and that the.! legislation of any particular nation 1 holding the mandate should not be I allowed to inflict, disabilities on | other parties to the league in the : territories for which the league ! i merely delegates its trusteeship. J ! It is not considered likely that the ' ' British will accede to any departure from the methods adopted at the conference, when a highly-placed member of the British delegation was of opinion that the laws of the . country holding the mandate should be applicable to the territory. | The Japanese, if unsuccessful i now, will carry the demand to the j first' assembly of the League of ! Nations. i - I — '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17361, 7 January 1920, Page 7
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