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...delegates are not afraid to applaud their favorites, and Bevin is one of them. There were cheers when he said Britain was ready to put her mandates of Tanganyika, Togoland and the Cameroons under UNO trusteeship. There were still longer cheers, led by the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, when he promised early independence to Trans-Jordan, whose Indiana-sized expanse includes mud, lifeless desert and the Dead Sea. The Emir Abdullah was at once invited to London to implement the deal...
...Partners." Leaks disclosed that Halifax reported the Nazis demanding in the way of colonies that Britain and France yield "only" Togoland and the Cameroons-these being nearly worthless African territories-but that Belgium and Portugal should be forced to yield their long held rich Congo and Angola to a chartered company in which they would be "partners" with Germany, which would own the controlling interest. Hitler, in return for the above concessions, would bind Germany never to attempt to repossess the more valuable once-German colonies now held as mandates by the United Kingdom, France, the Dominions, and Japan...
...expensive foundling has cost her more than £200,000,000 or roughly one billion dollars?a tribute to U. S. wisdom in not accepting a mandate over Armenia (which has since become a Soviet republic). Other mandates held by Britain are: Palestine, parts of German East Africa, Togoland and the Cameroons, Southwest Africa (held by the. Union of South Africa), German New Guinea (held by Australia), the Nauru and Samoan Islands (held by New Zealand...
French mandates are Syria & Lebanon plus the rest of Togoland and the Cameroons...
Curious about international white slave traffic, Author Londres once lived with the traffickers, about whom he wrote The Road to Buenos Aires. His latest excursion-to Africa, through French Sudan, the High Volta, the Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined...