Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-23
BRITISH PLANS !. TO BAR NATION
 FROM MANDATE
 TALKS OPPOSED
Colby Advises Allies T.. $. Will Not Give Up Rights
 That It Fought For
FIRM NOTE IS SENT
Absence Of America From League Does Not Alter
 Matter, Note Declares

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-(By the
 Associated Pressl-Equal oppouuni.
 ties for the citizens of all allied and ! associated powers, whether members
 of the league of nations or moi in
 former enemy territories to be admin.
 istered by the allied governmentS un. i, der mandates, is insisted upon in a
 not dispatched by the state depart. l ment to the league council at Paris. The note went last night to Ambas- sador Wallase, who is to present it
 tomorrow. State department officials
 described it as being virtually identi.
 cal with the one sent Great Britain
 last November by Secretary Colby. That note was couched in firm language. Colby took issue with the British position that mandate agree ! ments and treaties were to- be con- sidered only by members of the league
 and declared that the United States as contributor to the victory in the
 war could not consider "any of the | ossiciated powers debarred rom participation in the rights and privileges secured under the man dates
 Initiation of this. the first action to De taken by the United States fo the
 league council. was at the suggestion
 of an allied power. understood to have
 been Great Britain. The British for eign office never has replied to Colby's note in which he asked that the Uni. ted States be permitted to examine the draft mandates before submission to the council. Meantime. however. Great Britain has sent the draft man. dates for Mesopotamia and Palestine to the council and il is understood it was for this reason that it sue. Sested that the United States present its views to the council.
 Action by the council on the man. dates at this session had been ex- pected and it was explained that ii was on this account that the admin. istration decided to present it's argu- ments direct to the council although 1t leaves office in little more than two weeks.
 Paris dispatches today said that in- dependent of the action of the Amer can government, consideration of the mandates governing Mesopotamia. Palestine and Syria had been postpon. cd until the councils April meeting so that Winston Churchill, new Brits ish secretary for the colonies. could study questions involved
 It was said tonight that this would give the Harding administration time to study the question and decide on a policy.
 The principal point at issue between the United States and Great Britain is the so-called San Reno agreement between Grat Britain and France for the development of oil resources in the mandate territories in the Near East Under Secretary payIs nss said leading Republican senators have ap- proved the position taken by his de. partmenL
 League Is Surprised
 PARIS, Feb. 22-(By the Associat- ed PreSs)-Ambassado Wallace nos to the league of nations council today that the American state department at Washington desired to present the views of the United States before action was taKrn on mandates created surprise in league circles The gradual withdrawal of American from the councils had tended to confirm the opinion that the outgoing admin would leave all such initia- tive to the new government.
 The text of the note will not be generally known until tomorrow. but Secretary Colby's unexpected interven- tio4 is received in French circles and among others also with evident satis- faction as showing that the new world still maintains contact with the old worlds problems.
 Notification of the imminent arri- val of the note came when man dates" was the first question on the agenda of the council. which spent nearly all day discussing the reply to the American ambassadors letter and views on those mandates which the American observations aIe not likely to touch.
 The councils reply to Ambassador Wallace expresses the lively interest with which the council learned of the and says that in de. ference to his request the council will postpone all final decisions relative to Lhe form of mandates being discussed intil receipt of the communication.