CLOSING STaTivcinT OF THE SPiCIab RePR gai aT IVs OF THE aDMIN } MRP. s. =LONDS- : 7 JULY TS5L. I should like to thank all the distinguished members of this Council for the sympathetic care énd attention with which they have considered conditions in the Trust Territory of West- ern Samoa and for the constructive comments made both in their clesing statements and in the course of the general debate. I need not remind members that the record of this cebate will be thoroughly studied both by the administering Authority and the Territorial Government when they are planning their future policy. I should particularly like to thank members of the council such as the distinguished representative of El Salvador who were so careful and judicious in their appraisal of the administering authority's actions during the year. I am grateful to members of the Council who have pointed out that there still remain many things to be done in ‘iestern Samoa. The adninistering suthority is alweys aware of this and it never fails to make use of any opportunity of reminding the pecorle of the Territory, largely lie, in whose hands future developments so that there are ahead or Samoa even greater tasks than those that have been performed and greater difficulties than those that have been overcome. This sober note must be sounded - especially after a debate in which I may at times have erred on the side of optimism, or even eulogy, when explaining to the Council the merits of the Samoan way of life and enlarging on these joint accomplishments of which the administering Authority and the Samoan people are rightly proud. The administering Authority will, of course, take due cognizance of the remarks about universal suffrage which various dis- tinguished representatives have made and will bring these remarks to the notice of the people of the Trust Territory. This high liberal ideal must not be forgotten when the future political advancement of Samoa is considered. Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re’ is, it seems, the principle which should inspire the 9001026 administering authority in its policy :in the political ee as ” in CONFIRMED TO m UNCLASSIFED ek ee AUTHORITY: DOE-pPc . waa i ©