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PACIFIC MANDATES
MR. HUGHES'S ANSWER.
Support by Sir Robert Garran.
HOBART, April 7.-"I read Mr
Hughes's answer, framed with his
characteristic directness and pic
turesqueness," said Sir Robert
Garran, KC. at Hobart today when
he commented on the charges made
against the Federal UAP Leader
(Mr Hughes) by the Chicago "Her
ald Tribune." Sir Robert, a former
Commonwealth Solicitor-General, as
technical adviser, accompanied Mr
Hughes (then Prime Minister) to
the Peace Conference at Versailles.
"His answer is so crushing that it
hardly needs supplementing." said
Sir Robert. "There is no doubt that
Mr Hughes throughout the Peace
Conference was the valiant oppon
ent of all Japanese pretensions and
what the Japanese got from the con
ference they got in the teeth of his
strong opposition. The mythical pro
posal of President Wilson that the
Pacific islands should be placed
under the mandate of distinterested
Powers Wbars its absurdity on its
face. How could any disinterested
Power be so interested as to under
take such a huge responsibility, and
what Powers disinterested or other
wise were able and willing to under
take it?
"Presumably the Chicago 'Herald
Tribune' means to suggest the US,
but the US were for historical rea
sons so isolationist at the time that
they would not even loin the League
of Nations. Their chief possession
in the Pacific, the Philippines, they
were determined to give up. The
Chicago 'Herald-Tribune' was and is
in the forefront of the Isolationlsm
of the Middle West, and coming
from it the suggestion that America
would have undertaken the Pacific
protectorate is more than amusing."
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