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A SYMPOSIUM on “Peace and the Colonial Problem” published by the National Peace Council (39 Victoria Street, S.W.I. 6d.) contains the speeches delivered by Sir Arthur Salter, the Marquis of Lothian, Prof. N. Bentwich, Sir John Harris and others, at a Conference organised by the National Peace Council and held at the Livings tone Hall, Westminster, in October 1935. Sir Arthur Salter states that he considers that it would be both wrong and impracticable at this moment to transfer colonies to the dissatisfied countries of the world. He holds, however, that a remedy might be found in an extension of the mandate principle, whereby colonies would be held under a double trusteeship (1) to the inhabitants of the country and (2) to the world in general. Countries holding mandates should be responsible for the execution of their trusteeship to an international authority under a mandate, and the terms of this mandate should be extended so as to remove so far as possible the economic disabilities suffered by countries not possessing colonies.
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Colonial Administration. Nature 137, 426 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137426b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137426b0