19 APRIL 1919, Page 1

It also gives the United States the right of direct

control of such places as San Domingo and Hayti, where American temps were landed after the beginning of the war with Germany. 01 course Great Britain has no reproofs to fear under the mandatory system, because all the conditions exacted by the League I av long been respected by us. But other mandatories who have had less experience in the control of subject races may only too easily be unequal to their trust. On the whole, we must expect some dissatisfaction on the part of Australia and New Zealand with an arrangement which apparently imposes the mandate ry principle in New Guinea and Samoa, and dispenses with it in Hayti, San Domingo, Guantanamo, and other American resting- places.