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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
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