MANDATED AREAS
QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY LEAGUE COMMISSION’S ATTITUDE Received March 9, 10.10 p.m. GENEVA, March 8. The Mandates Commission’s persistency in seeking to obtain recognition as to the organisation in control of mandated territories is dying hard. Already the question of petitions has been disposed of, and there appears to be every likelihood of* the questionnaire being scrapped. The latest question to be raised by the Commission is that of sovereignty. South Africa and Portugal recently signed agreements concerning the boundary between the mandated territories of South West Africa and Angola. In the preamble to this agreement appeared the words 1 'possesses sovereignty.”
The Commission seized on and commented on the use of this phrase as follows: “Having regard to the terms of the Covenant, the Commission doubts whether such an expression could be hold to define correctly the relations existing between a mandatory Power and the territory embraced under the mandate.” When it was discussed by the Council to-day that body refrained from expressing an opinion as to where sovereignty resides, and the comment of the Mandates Commission has simply been noted. This decision is important to Australia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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