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⚫ | A '''League of Nations mandate''' represented a [[legal status]] under [[international law]] for specific territories following [[World War I]], involving the transfer of control from one nation to another. These mandates served as legal documents establishing the internationally agreed terms for administering the territory on behalf of the [[League of Nations]]. Combining elements of both a [[treaty]] and a [[constitution]], these mandates contained [[Minority Treaties|minority rights clauses]] that provided for the rights of petition and adjudication by the [[Permanent Court of International Justice]].<ref>{{cite journal |date=21 June 1971 |title=Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970) |url=http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/53/5595.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=International Court of Justice |pages=28–32 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106103217/http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/53/5595.pdf |archive-date=6 January 2015 |access-date=28 August 2010}}</ref> |
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⚫ | The mandate system was established under Article 22 of the [[Covenant of the League of Nations]], entered into force on 28 June 1919. With the dissolution of the League of Nations after [[World War II]], it was stipulated at the [[Yalta Conference]] that the remaining mandates should be placed under the trusteeship of the [[United Nations]], subject to future discussions and formal agreements. Most of the remaining mandates of the League of Nations (with the exception of [[South West Africa]]) thus eventually became [[United Nations trust territories]]. |
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⚫ | A '''League of Nations mandate''' |
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⚫ | The mandate system was established under Article 22 of the [[Covenant of the League of Nations]], entered into force on 28 June 1919. With the dissolution of the League of Nations after [[World War II]], it was stipulated at the [[Yalta Conference]] that the remaining |
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Two governing principles formed the core of the Mandate System, being non-annexation of the territory and its administration as a "sacred trust of civilisation" to develop the territory for the benefit of its native people.<ref>Matz, 2005, pp 70-71, "Primarily, two elements formed the core of the Mandate System, the principle of non-annexation of the territory on the one hand and its administration as a 'sacred trust of civilisation' on the other... The principle of administration as a 'sacred trust of civilisation' was designed to prevent a practice of imperial exploitation of the mandated territory in contrast to former colonial habits. Instead, the Mandatory's administration should assist in developing the territory for the well-being of its native people."</ref> |
Two governing principles formed the core of the Mandate System, being non-annexation of the territory and its administration as a "sacred trust of civilisation" to develop the territory for the benefit of its native people.<ref>Matz, 2005, pp 70-71, "Primarily, two elements formed the core of the Mandate System, the principle of non-annexation of the territory on the one hand and its administration as a 'sacred trust of civilisation' on the other... The principle of administration as a 'sacred trust of civilisation' was designed to prevent a practice of imperial exploitation of the mandated territory in contrast to former colonial habits. Instead, the Mandatory's administration should assist in developing the territory for the well-being of its native people."</ref> |
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According to historian [[Susan Pedersen (historian)|Susan Pedersen]], colonial administration in the mandates did not differ substantially from colonial administration elsewhere. Even though the Covenant of the League committed the great powers to govern the mandates differently, the main difference appeared to be that the colonial powers spoke differently about the mandates than their other colonial possessions.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pedersen |first=Susan |editor-first1=Caroline |editor-first2=Susan |editor-last1=Elkins |editor-last2=Pedersen |chapter=Settler Colonialism at the Bar of the League of Nations |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203621042-12/settler-colonialism-bar-league-nations-susan-pedersen |title=Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century |year=2012 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203621042/settler-colonialism-twentieth-century-caroline-elkins-susan-pedersen|publication-date=2005 |doi=10.4324/9780203621042 |isbn=9780203621042 }}</ref> |
According to historian [[Susan Pedersen (historian)|Susan Pedersen]], [[Colonialism|colonial administration]] in the mandates did not differ substantially from colonial administration elsewhere. Even though the Covenant of the League committed the [[Great power|great powers]] to govern the mandates differently, the main difference appeared to be that the colonial powers spoke differently about the mandates than their other colonial possessions.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pedersen |first=Susan |editor-first1=Caroline |editor-first2=Susan |editor-last1=Elkins |editor-last2=Pedersen |chapter=Settler Colonialism at the Bar of the League of Nations |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203621042-12/settler-colonialism-bar-league-nations-susan-pedersen |title=Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century |year=2012 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203621042/settler-colonialism-twentieth-century-caroline-elkins-susan-pedersen|publication-date=2005 |doi=10.4324/9780203621042 |isbn=9780203621042 }}</ref> |
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==Basis== |
==Basis== |
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The mandate system was established by Article |
The mandate system was established by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, drafted by the victors of World War I. The article referred to territories which after the war were no longer ruled by their previous sovereign, but their peoples were not considered "able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world". The article called for such people's tutelage to be "entrusted to advanced nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position can best undertake this responsibility".<ref name=article22/> |
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U.S. President [[Woodrow Wilson]] and South African General [[Jan Smuts]] played influential roles in pushing for the establishment of a mandates system.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Potter|first=Pitman B.|date=1922|title=Origin of the System of Mandates Under the League of Nations|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400019997/type/journal_article|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=16|issue=4|pages=563–583|doi=10.2307/1943638|jstor=1943638 |s2cid=147683015 |issn=0003-0554}}</ref> The mandates system reflected a compromise between Smuts (who wanted colonial powers to annex the territories) and Wilson (who wanted trusteeship over the territories).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wright |first=Quincy |date=1923 |title=Sovereignty of the Mandates |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/abs/sovereignty-of-the-mandates/04449FEAB2461804FB4986EEF6ABD839 |journal=American Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=691–703 |doi=10.2307/2188657 |jstor=2188657 |s2cid=147557607 |issn=0002-9300}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Kripp |first=Jacob |date=2022 |title=The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts's Vision of the League of Nations |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/creative-advance-must-be-defended-miscegenation-metaphysics-and-race-war-in-jan-smutss-vision-of-the-league-of-nations/B9B5FFB577776A1A38A65E9224EB1BD9 |journal=American Political Science Review |language=en |volume=116 |issue=3 |pages=940–953 |doi=10.1017/S0003055421001362 |s2cid=244938442 |issn=0003-0554}}</ref> |
[[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] and South African General [[Jan Smuts]] played influential roles in pushing for the establishment of a mandates system.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Potter|first=Pitman B.|date=1922|title=Origin of the System of Mandates Under the League of Nations|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400019997/type/journal_article|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=16|issue=4|pages=563–583|doi=10.2307/1943638|jstor=1943638 |s2cid=147683015 |issn=0003-0554}}</ref> The mandates system reflected a compromise between Smuts (who wanted colonial powers to annex the territories) and Wilson (who wanted trusteeship over the territories).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wright |first=Quincy |date=1923 |title=Sovereignty of the Mandates |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/abs/sovereignty-of-the-mandates/04449FEAB2461804FB4986EEF6ABD839 |journal=American Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=691–703 |doi=10.2307/2188657 |jstor=2188657 |s2cid=147557607 |issn=0002-9300}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Kripp |first=Jacob |date=2022 |title=The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts's Vision of the League of Nations |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/creative-advance-must-be-defended-miscegenation-metaphysics-and-race-war-in-jan-smutss-vision-of-the-league-of-nations/B9B5FFB577776A1A38A65E9224EB1BD9 |journal=American Political Science Review |language=en |volume=116 |issue=3 |pages=940–953 |doi=10.1017/S0003055421001362 |s2cid=244938442 |issn=0003-0554}}</ref> |
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==Generalities== |
==Generalities== |
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All of the territories subject to League of Nations mandates were previously controlled by states defeated in World War |
All of the territories subject to League of Nations mandates were previously controlled by states defeated in World War I, principally [[German Empire|Imperial Germany]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]]. The mandates were fundamentally different from the [[protectorate]]s in that the mandatory power undertook obligations to the inhabitants of the territory and to the League of Nations. |
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The process of establishing the mandates consisted of two phases: |
The process of establishing the mandates consisted of two phases: |
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#The formal removal of [[sovereignty]] of the state previously controlling the territory. |
# The formal removal of [[sovereignty]] of the state previously controlling the territory. |
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#The transfer of mandatory powers to individual states among the [[Allies of World War I|Allied Powers]]. |
# The transfer of mandatory powers to individual states among the [[Allies of World War I|Allied Powers]]. |
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===Treaties=== |
===Treaties=== |
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The divestiture of Germany's overseas |
The divestiture of Germany's overseas colonies, along with three territories disentangled from its European homeland area (the [[Free City of Danzig]], the [[Klaipėda Region|Memel Territory]], and the [[Territory of the Saar Basin|Saar]]), was accomplished in the [[Treaty of Versailles]] (1919), with the territories being allotted among the Allies on 7 May of that year. Ottoman territorial claims were first addressed in the [[Treaty of Sèvres]] (1920) and finalised in the [[Treaty of Lausanne]] (1923). The Ottoman territories were allotted among the Allied Powers at the [[San Remo conference]] in 1920. |
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==Types of mandates== |
==Types of mandates== |
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[[File:Article 22 of Covenant of the League of Nations, highlighting the three mandate classes.jpg|thumb|right|Article 22 of [[Covenant of the League of Nations]], highlighting the three mandate classes: |
[[File:Article 22 of Covenant of the League of Nations, highlighting the three mandate classes.jpg|thumb|right|Article 22 of the [[Covenant of the League of Nations]], highlighting the three mandate classes: |
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{{blist|Red: '''Class A''' (ex Ottoman)|Blue: '''Class B''' (ex German Central Africa)|Yellow: '''Class C''' (ex German South West Africa and Pacific)}}]] |
{{blist|Red: '''Class A''' (ex Ottoman)|Blue: '''Class B''' (ex German Central Africa)|Yellow: '''Class C''' (ex German South West Africa and Pacific)}}]] |
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The League of Nations decided the exact level of control by the mandatory power over each mandate on an individual basis. However, in every case the mandatory power was forbidden to construct fortifications or raise an army within the territory of the mandate, and was required to present an annual report on the territory to the [[Permanent Mandates Commission]] of the League of Nations. |
The League of Nations decided the exact level of control by the mandatory power over each mandate on an individual basis. However, in every case the mandatory power was forbidden to construct fortifications or raise an army within the territory of the mandate, and was required to present an annual report on the territory to the [[Permanent Mandates Commission]] of the League of Nations. |
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The mandates were divided into three distinct groups based upon the level of development each population had achieved at that time. |
The mandates were divided into three distinct groups based upon the level of development each population had achieved at that time. |
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===Class A mandates=== |
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The first group, or ''Class |
The first group, or ''Class A mandates'', were territories formerly controlled by the Ottoman Empire that were deemed to "... have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognised subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone. The wishes of these communities must be a principal consideration in the selection of the Mandatory." |
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===Class B mandates=== |
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The second group of mandates, or ''Class |
The second group of mandates, or ''Class B mandates'', were all former German colonies in [[West Africa|West]] and [[Central Africa]], referred to by Germany as {{lang|de|Schutzgebiete}} (protectorates or territories), which were deemed to require a greater level of control by the mandatory power: "...the Mandatory must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience and religion." The mandatory power was forbidden to construct military or naval bases within the mandates. |
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===Class C mandates=== |
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''Class C mandates'', including South West Africa and the South Pacific Islands, were considered to be "best administered under the laws of the Mandatory as integral portions of its territory." |
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==List of mandates== |
==List of mandates== |
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Column header abbreviations: C = Class, sov. = sovereignty |
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| rowspan=5 | '''A''' || rowspan=2 | '''[[Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon]]''' ||{{Flagicon image|Lebanese French flag.svg}} '''[[Greater Lebanon]]'''|| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon|France|variant=1794}} [[France]]|| Various Ottoman sanjaks || rowspan=5 | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} || 29 September 1923 – 24 October 1945. Joined the United Nations on 24 October 1945 as an independent state |
| rowspan=5 | '''A''' || rowspan=2 | '''[[Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon]]''' ||{{Flagicon image|Lebanese French flag.svg}} '''[[Greater Lebanon]]'''|| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon|France|variant=1794}} [[French Third Republic|France]]|| Various Ottoman sanjaks || rowspan=5 | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} || 29 September 1923 – 24 October 1945. Joined the United Nations on 24 October 1945 as an independent state and Founding Member || {{flag|Lebanon}} || rowspan=2 | [[File:Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.djvu|100px]] |
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|{{Flagicon image|Flag of Syria (1932-1958; 1961-1963).svg}} '''[[First Syrian Republic|Syria]]'''|| Various Ottoman sanjaks || 29 September 1923 – 24 October 1945: This mandate included [[Hatay Province]] (a former Ottoman Alexandretta [[sanjak]]), which broke away from the mandate on 2 September 1938 to become a separate French protectorate, which lasted until Hatay Province was ceded to the new [[Turkey|Republic of Turkey]] on 29 June 1939. Joined the United Nations on 24 October 1945 as an independent state || {{flag|Syria}} |
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| rowspan=2 | '''[[Mandate for Palestine]]''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the United Kingdom.svg}}'''[[Mandatory Palestine]]'''|| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]|| Ottoman sanjaks of [[Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]], [[Nablus |
| rowspan=2 | '''[[Mandate for Palestine]]''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the United Kingdom.svg}}'''[[Mandatory Palestine]]'''|| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]|| Ottoman sanjaks of [[Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]], [[Nablus Sanjak|Nablus]], and [[Acre Sanjak|Acre]] |
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|| 29 September 1923 – 15 May 1948.<ref>{{cite web|title=Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Volume XIII, Annotations to the treaty of peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, signed at Versailles, June 28, 1919|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv13&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=101|work=Foreign Relations of the United States|publisher=United States State Department|access-date=13 March 2011|date=June 28, 1919}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory|url=http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf|work=Advisory Opinions|publisher=The International Court of Justice (ICJ)|access-date=13 March 2011|page=165|year=2004|quote=70. Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the First World War, a class "A" Mandate for Palestine was entrusted to Great Britain by the League of Nations, pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article 22 of the Covenant|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706021237/http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf|archive-date=6 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Italy Holds up Class A Mandates|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CEFDF1239EF3ABC4851DFB1668389639EDE|work=The New York Times|access-date=13 March 2011|date=July 20, 1922|quote=LONDON, July 19. – The A mandates, which govern the British occupation of Palestine and the French occupation of Syria, came today before the Council of the League of Nations.}}</ref> A [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] for peacefully dividing the remainder of the Mandate failed.<ref name="Pugh 321–343">{{Cite journal|last=Pugh|first=Jeffrey D.|date=2012-11-01|title=Whose Brother's Keeper? International Trusteeship and the Search for Peace in the Palestinian Territories|url=https://academic.oup.com/isp/article-abstract/13/4/321/1786157/Whose-Brother-s-Keeper-International-Trusteeship|journal=International Studies Perspectives|volume=13|issue=4|pages=321–343|doi=10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00483.x|issn=1528-3577}}</ref> The Mandate [[End of the British Mandate for Palestine|terminated]] at midnight between 14 May and 15 May 1948. On the evening of 14 May, the Chairman of the [[Jewish Agency for Palestine]] had declared the [[Declaration of |
|| 29 September 1923 – 15 May 1948.<ref>{{cite web|title=Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Volume XIII, Annotations to the treaty of peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, signed at Versailles, June 28, 1919|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv13&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=101|work=Foreign Relations of the United States|publisher=United States State Department|access-date=13 March 2011|date=June 28, 1919}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory|url=http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf|work=Advisory Opinions|publisher=The International Court of Justice (ICJ)|access-date=13 March 2011|page=165|year=2004|quote=70. Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the First World War, a class "A" Mandate for Palestine was entrusted to Great Britain by the League of Nations, pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article 22 of the Covenant|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706021237/http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf|archive-date=6 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Italy Holds up Class A Mandates|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CEFDF1239EF3ABC4851DFB1668389639EDE|work=The New York Times|access-date=13 March 2011|date=July 20, 1922|quote=LONDON, July 19. – The A mandates, which govern the British occupation of Palestine and the French occupation of Syria, came today before the Council of the League of Nations.}}</ref> A [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] for peacefully dividing the remainder of the Mandate failed.<ref name="Pugh 321–343">{{Cite journal|last=Pugh|first=Jeffrey D.|date=2012-11-01|title=Whose Brother's Keeper? International Trusteeship and the Search for Peace in the Palestinian Territories|url=https://academic.oup.com/isp/article-abstract/13/4/321/1786157/Whose-Brother-s-Keeper-International-Trusteeship|journal=International Studies Perspectives|volume=13|issue=4|pages=321–343|doi=10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00483.x|issn=1528-3577}}</ref> The Mandate [[End of the British Mandate for Palestine|terminated]] at midnight between 14 May and 15 May 1948. On the evening of 14 May, the Chairman of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel|Jewish Agency for Palestine]] had declared the [[Israeli Declaration of Independence|establishment]] of the [[Israel|State of Israel]].<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Declaration+of+Establishment+of+State+of+Israel.htm Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116103234/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Declaration+of+Establishment+of+State+of+Israel.htm |date=2013-01-16 }}. May 14, 1948: Retrieved 28 January 2013.</ref> Following the [[1948 Palestine war|war]], 75% of the area was controlled by the new State of Israel.<ref name="OsmańczykMango2003">{{cite book|author1=Edmund Jan Osmańczyk|author2=Anthony Mango|title=Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: G to M|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSIMXHMdfkkC&pg=PA1178|access-date=17 November 2011|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93922-5|page=1178}}</ref> Other parts, until 1967, formed the [[West Bank]] of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the [[All-Palestine Government]] under the [[Egypt]]ian-controlled [[Gaza Strip]].||{{flag|Israel}}<br>{{flag|Palestine}} ||rowspan=2 | [[File: Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument).png|100px]] |
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|{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Emirate of Transjordan.svg}} '''[[Emirate of Transjordan]]'''|| Ottoman sanjaks of [[Hauran Sanjak|Hauran]] and [[Karak |
|{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Emirate of Transjordan.svg}} '''[[Emirate of Transjordan]]'''|| Ottoman sanjaks of [[Hauran Sanjak|Hauran]] and [[Karak Sanjak|Ma'an]]|| In April 1921, the [[Emirate of Transjordan]] was provisionally added as an autonomous area under the United Kingdom,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P4cjDhBXV-4C&pg=PA21 The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State, By Yoav Alon, Published by I.B.Tauris, 2007], {{ISBN|1-84511-138-9}}, p. 21</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=x7qEqVpq9poC&pg=PA89 Determining Boundaries in a Conflicted World: The Role of Uti Possidetis, By Suzanne Lalonde, Published by McGill-Queen's Press (MQUP), 2002], {{ISBN|0-7735-2424-X}}, pp. 89–100</ref> and it became the independent [[Hashemites|Hashemite]] Kingdom of Transjordan (later [[Jordan]]) on 17 June 1946 upon joint ratification of the [[Treaty of London (1946)|Treaty of London of 1946]]. || {{flag|Jordan}} |
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| ''Indirect'' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of Iraq (1924–1959).svg}}'''[[Mandatory Iraq]]'''|| Various Ottoman sanjaks|| The draft [[British Mandate for Mesopotamia]] not enacted and was replaced by the [[Anglo-Iraqi Treaty]] of October 1922.{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=595}} Britain committed to act the responsibilities of a Mandatory Power in 1924.{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=593}} Iraq attained independence from the United Kingdom on 3 October 1932. || {{flag|Iraq}} ||[[File: Anglo Iraq Treaty 1922.jpg|100px]] |
| ''Indirect'' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of Iraq (1924–1959).svg}}'''[[Mandatory Iraq]]'''|| Various Ottoman sanjaks|| The draft [[Mandate for Mesopotamia|British Mandate for Mesopotamia]] was not enacted and was replaced by the [[Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922|Anglo-Iraqi Treaty]] of October 1922.{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=595}} Britain committed to act the responsibilities of a Mandatory Power in 1924.{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=593}} Iraq attained independence from the United Kingdom on 3 October 1932. || {{flag|Iraq}} ||[[File: Anglo Iraq Treaty 1922.jpg|100px]] |
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| rowspan=6 | '''B''' || '''Belgian Mandate for East Africa''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of Belgium.svg}} '''[[Ruanda-Urundi]]'''||{{Flagicon|Belgium}}[[Belgium]]|| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}}[[German East Africa]]|| rowspan="6" |{{flag|German Empire}} || From 20 July 1922 to 13 December 1946. Formerly two separate German protectorates, they were joined as a single mandate on 20 July 1922. From 1 March 1926 to 30 June 1960, Ruanda-Urundi was in administrative union with the neighbouring colony of [[Belgian Congo]]. After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations |
| rowspan=6 | '''B''' || '''Belgian Mandate for East Africa''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of Belgium.svg}} '''[[Ruanda-Urundi]]'''||{{Flagicon|Belgium}}[[Belgium]]|| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}}[[German East Africa]]|| rowspan="6" |{{flag|German Empire}} || From 20 July 1922 to 13 December 1946. Formerly two separate German protectorates, they were joined as a single mandate on 20 July 1922. From 1 March 1926 to 30 June 1960, Ruanda-Urundi was in administrative union with the neighbouring colony of the [[Belgian Congo]]. After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations trust territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] gained independence on 1 July 1962. || {{flag|Rwanda}}<br>{{flag|Burundi}} ||[[File: Belgian Mandate for East Africa.pdf |100px]] |
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| '''British Mandate for East Africa'''{{sfn|Hall|1948|p=303}} ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of Tanganyika (1923–1961).svg}}'''[[Tanganyika Territory]]'''||{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} |
| '''British Mandate for East Africa'''{{sfn|Hall|1948|p=303}} ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of Tanganyika (1923–1961).svg}}'''[[Tanganyika Territory]]'''||{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom|| From 20 July 1922 to 11 December 1946. It became a United Nations trust territory on 11 December 1946, and was granted internal self-rule on 1 May 1961. On 9 December 1961, it became independent while retaining the British monarch as nominal head of state, transforming into a republic on the same day the next year. On 26 April 1964, Tanganyika merged with the neighbouring island of [[Zanzibar]] to become the modern nation of [[Tanzania]]. || {{flag|Tanzania}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Ruanda-Urundi, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=611}} |
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| '''British Mandate for the Cameroons''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of British Cameroon.svg}} '''[[British |
| '''British Mandate for the Cameroons''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of British Cameroon.svg}} '''[[British Cameroon]]'''||{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom|| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}}[[Kamerun|German Kamerun]]|| Became part of the United Nations trust territories after World War II on 13 December 1946 || Part of {{flag|Cameroon}} and {{flag|Nigeria}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for French Cameroons, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=616}} |
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| '''French Mandate for the Cameroons''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg}} '''[[French |
| '''French Mandate for the Cameroons''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg}} '''[[French Cameroon]]'''||{{Flagicon|France|variant=1794}} France|| Under a [[Resident minister|Resident]] and a [[Commissioner]] until 27 August 1940, then under a [[List of colonial governors of Cameroon|governor]]. Became part of the United Nations trust territories after World War II on 13 December 1946 || {{flag|Cameroon}} ||[[File:French Mandate for the Cameroons.pdf |100px]] |
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| '''British Mandate for Togoland''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the United Kingdom.svg}} '''[[British Togoland]]'''||{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} |
| '''British Mandate for Togoland''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the United Kingdom.svg}} '''[[British Togoland]]'''||{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom|| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}}[[Togoland|German Togoland]]|| British Administrator post filled by the colonial Governor of the British [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] (present day [[Ghana]]) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson). Transformed on 13 December 1946 into a United Nations trust territory; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana. || [[Volta Region]], {{flag|Ghana}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for French Togoland, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=616}} |
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| '''French Mandate for Togoland''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of Togo (1957-1958).svg}} '''[[French Togoland]]'''||{{Flagicon|France|variant=1794}} |
| '''French Mandate for Togoland''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of Togo (1957-1958).svg}} '''[[French Togoland]]'''||{{Flagicon|France|variant=1794}} France|| French Togoland under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a [[High commissioner|High Commissioner]] as the Autonomous Republic of [[Togo]] || {{flag|Togo}} ||[[File:French Mandate for Togoland WDL11571.pdf |100px]] |
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| rowspan=5 | '''C''' || '''Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean situated South of the Equator other than German Samoa and Nauru''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Territory of New Guinea.svg}}'''[[Territory of New Guinea]]'''||{{Flagicon|Australia}}[[Australia]]|| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon image|Flag of German New Guinea.svg}}[[German New Guinea]]|| rowspan="5" |{{flag|German Empire}} || Included German New Guinea and "the group of islands in the Pacific Ocean lying south of the equator other than German Samoa and Nauru".{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} From 17 December 1920 under an (at first Military) Administrator; after (wartime) Japanese/U.S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea (under Australia, as administrative unit), until it became part of present [[Papua New Guinea]] at independence in 1975 || Part of {{flag|Papua New Guinea}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} |
| rowspan=5 | '''C''' || '''Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean situated South of the Equator other than German Samoa and Nauru''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Territory of New Guinea.svg}}'''[[Territory of New Guinea]]'''||{{Flagicon|Australia}}[[Australia]]|| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon image|Flag of German New Guinea.svg}}[[German New Guinea]]|| rowspan="5" |{{flag|German Empire}} || Included German New Guinea and "the group of islands in the Pacific Ocean lying south of the equator other than German Samoa and Nauru".{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} From 17 December 1920 under an (at first Military) Administrator; after (wartime) Japanese/U.S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea (under Australia, as administrative unit), until it became part of present [[Papua New Guinea]] at independence in 1975 || Part of {{flag|Papua New Guinea}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} |
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| '''Mandate for Nauru''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the United Kingdom.svg}} '''[[History of Nauru#World War I to World War II|Nauru]]'''||{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} |
| '''Mandate for Nauru''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the United Kingdom.svg}} '''[[History of Nauru#World War I to World War II|Nauru]]'''||{{Flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom|| British mandate, administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Became part of the United Nations trust territories after liberation from Japanese occupation in World War II || {{flag|Nauru}} ||[[File:Mandate for Nauru WDL468.pdf |100px]] |
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| '''Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean lying North of the Equator'''{{sfn|Hall|1948|p=307}} ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the South Pacific Mandate.svg}} '''[[South Seas Mandate]]'''||{{Flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]|| Known as the [[South Seas Mandate]]. Became part of the United Nations trust territories and administered by the United States after World War II || {{flag|Palau}}<br>{{flag|Marshall Islands}}<br>{{flag|Federated States of Micronesia}}<br>{{flag|Northern Mariana Islands}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} |
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| '''Mandate for German Samoa''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Samoa Trust Territory.svg}}'''[[Western Samoa Trust Territory|Western Samoa]]'''||{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[New Zealand]]||{{Flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}}[[German Samoa]]|| From 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed |
| '''Mandate for German Samoa''' ||{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Samoa Trust Territory.svg}}'''[[Western Samoa Trust Territory|Western Samoa]]'''||{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[New Zealand]]||{{Flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}}[[German Samoa]]|| From 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa (as opposed to [[American Samoa]]), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its independence on 1 January 1962 || {{flag|Samoa}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} |
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| '''Mandate for German South West Africa''' ||{{Flagicon image|Red Ensign of South Africa (1912–1951).svg}} '''[[South West Africa]]'''||{{Flagicon|Union of South Africa|variant=1912}} [[South Africa]]<ref>Treaty of Peace and South West Africa Mandate Bill of 1919</ref>||{{Flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}}[[German South West Africa]]|| From 1 October 1922, [[Walvis Bay]]'s administration (still merely having a [[Magistrate]] until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, hence a [[Mayor]]) was also assigned to the mandate || {{flag|Namibia}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} |
| '''Mandate for German South West Africa''' ||{{Flagicon image|Red Ensign of South Africa (1912–1951).svg}} '''[[South West Africa]]'''||{{Flagicon|Union of South Africa|variant=1912}} [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]]<ref>Treaty of Peace and South West Africa Mandate Bill of 1919</ref>||{{Flagicon image|Reichskolonialflagge.svg}}[[German South West Africa]]|| From 1 October 1922, [[Walvis Bay]]'s administration (still merely having a [[Magistrate]] until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, hence a [[Mayor]]) was also assigned to the mandate. || {{flag|Namibia}} ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} |
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==Rules of establishment== |
==Rules of establishment== |
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[[File:Map of league of nations mandate.png|thumb| |
[[File:Map of league of nations mandate.png|thumb|Map of the League of Nations mandates]] |
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According to the Council of the League of Nations, meeting of August 1920:<ref>(pp. 109–110)</ref> "draft mandates adopted by the Allied and Associated Powers would not be definitive until they had been considered and approved by the League |
According to the Council of the League of Nations, meeting of August 1920:<ref>(pp. 109–110)</ref> "draft mandates adopted by the Allied and Associated Powers would not be definitive until they had been considered and approved by the League... the legal title held by the mandatory Power must be a double one: one conferred by the Principal Powers and the other conferred by the League of Nations."<ref name="Wright">Quincy Wright, Mandates under the League of Nations, Univ.Chicago Press, 1930.</ref> |
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⚫ | Three steps were required to establish a Mandate under international law: (1) The Principal Allied and Associated Powers confer a mandate on one of their number or on a third power; (2) the principal powers officially notify the council of the League of Nations that a certain power has been appointed mandatory for such a certain defined territory; and (3) the council of the League of Nations takes official cognisance of the appointment of the mandatory power and informs the latter that it [the council] considers it as invested with the mandate, and at the same time notifies it of the terms of the mandate, after ascertaining whether they are in conformance with the provisions of the covenant."<ref name="Wright"/><ref>See also: Temperley, History of the Paris Peace Conference, Vol VI, pp. 505–506; League of Nations, The Mandates System (official publication of 1945); Hill, Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeship, pp. 133ff.</ref> |
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Three steps were required to establish a Mandate under international law: |
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⚫ | (1) The Principal Allied and Associated Powers confer a mandate on one of their number or on a third power; (2) the principal powers officially notify the council of the League of Nations that a certain power has been appointed mandatory for such a certain defined territory; and (3) the council of the League of Nations takes official cognisance of the appointment of the mandatory power and informs the latter that it [the council] considers it as invested with the mandate, and at the same time notifies it of the terms of the mandate, after ascertaining whether they are in conformance with the provisions of the covenant."<ref name="Wright"/><ref>See also: Temperley, History of the Paris Peace Conference, Vol VI, pp. 505–506; League of Nations, The Mandates System (official publication of 1945); Hill, Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeship, pp. 133ff.</ref> |
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The U.S. State Department ''Digest of International Law'' says that the terms of the |
The [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]]'s ''Digest of International Law'' says that the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne provided for the application of the principles of [[Succession of states|state succession]] to the "A" Mandates. The Treaty of Versailles provisionally recognised the former Ottoman communities as independent nations.<ref name=article22>{{Cite web |url=http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/versa/versa1.html |title=See Article 22 of the Peace Treaty of Versailles |access-date=2010-04-22 |archive-date=2010-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625045953/http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/versa/versa1.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It also required Germany to recognise the disposition of the former Ottoman territories and to recognise the new states laid down within their boundaries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/versa/versa15.html |title=See Article 434 of the Peace Treaty of Versailles |access-date=2010-04-22 |archive-date=2010-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625051627/http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/versa/versa15.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The terms of the Treaty of Lausanne required the newly created states that acquired the territory detached from the Ottoman Empire to pay annuities on the Ottoman public debt and to assume responsibility for the administration of concessions that had been granted by the Ottomans. The treaty also let the States acquire, without payment, all the property and possessions of the Ottoman Empire situated within their territory.<ref name="Lausanne">{{Cite web |url=http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Treaty_of_Lausanne |title=Article 47, 60, and Protocol XII, Article 9 of the Treaty of Lausanne |access-date=2010-04-22 |archive-date=2013-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112221242/http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Treaty_of_Lausanne |url-status=live }}</ref> The treaty provided that the League of Nations was responsible for establishing an arbitral court to resolve disputes that might arise and stipulated that its decisions were final.<ref name="Lausanne"/> |
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A disagreement regarding the legal status and the portion of the annuities to be paid by the "A" mandates was settled when an Arbitrator ruled that some of the mandates contained more than one State:<blockquote>The difficulty arises here how one is to regard the Asiatic countries under the British and French mandates. Iraq is a Kingdom in regard to which Great Britain has undertaken responsibilities equivalent to those of a Mandatory Power. Under the British mandate, Palestine and Transjordan have each an entirely separate |
A disagreement regarding the legal status and the portion of the annuities to be paid by the "A" mandates was settled when an Arbitrator ruled that some of the mandates contained more than one State:<blockquote>The difficulty arises here how one is to regard the Asiatic countries under the British and French mandates. Iraq is a Kingdom in regard to which Great Britain has undertaken responsibilities equivalent to those of a Mandatory Power. Under the British mandate, Palestine and Transjordan have each an entirely separate organisation. We are, therefore, in the presence of three States sufficiently separate to be considered as distinct Parties. France has received a single mandate from the Council of the League of Nations, but in the countries subject to that mandate, one can distinguish two distinct States: Syria and the Lebanon, each State possessing its own constitution and a nationality clearly different from the other.<ref>See Marjorie M. Whiteman, Digest of International Law, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1963) pp. 650–652, 21 Apr. 2010</ref></blockquote> |
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==Later history== |
==Later history== |
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After the [[United Nations]] was founded in 1945 and the League of Nations was disbanded, all but one of the mandated territories became [[ |
After the [[United Nations]] was founded in 1945 and the League of Nations was disbanded, all but one of the mandated territories became [[United Nations trust territories]], a roughly equivalent status.<ref name="Pugh 321–343"/> In each case, the colonial power that held the mandate on each territory became the administering power of the trusteeship, except that of the [[Empire of Japan]], which had been defeated in World War II, lost its mandate over the South Pacific islands, which became a "strategic trust territory" known as the [[Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands]] under U.S. administration. |
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The sole exception to the transformation of the League of Nations mandates into UN trusteeships was that of [[South Africa]] and its mandated territory [[South |
The sole exception to the transformation of the League of Nations mandates into UN trusteeships was that of [[South Africa]] and its mandated territory [[South West Africa]]. Rather than placing South West Africa under trusteeship like other former mandates, South Africa proposed [[annexation]], a proposition rejected by the [[United Nations General Assembly|UN General Assembly]]. Despite South Africa's resistance, the [[International Court of Justice]] affirmed that South Africa continued to have international obligations regarding the South West Africa mandate. Eventually, in 1990, the mandated territory, now [[Namibia]], gained independence, culminating from the [[Tripartite Accord (1988)|Tripartite Accords]] and the resolution of the [[South African Border War]] — a prolonged guerrilla conflict against the [[apartheid]] regime that lasted from 1966 until 1990. |
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Nearly all the former League of Nations mandates had become [[Sovereign state|sovereign states]] by 1990, including all of the former |
Nearly all the former League of Nations mandates had become [[Sovereign state|sovereign states]] by 1990, including all of the former UN trust territories with the exception of a few successor entities of the gradually dismembered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (formerly Japan's South Pacific Trust Mandate). These exceptions include the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] which is a [[Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)|commonwealth]] in [[political union]] with the U.S. with the status of [[Territories of the United States|unincorporated organised territory]]. The Northern Mariana Islands does elect its own [[List of governors of the Northern Mariana Islands|governor]] to serve as territorial [[head of government]], but it remains a U.S. territory with its [[head of state]] being the President of the United States and [[Federal government of the United States|federal funds]] to the commonwealth administered by the [[Office of Insular Affairs]] of the [[United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Department of the Interior]]. |
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Remnant [[Micronesia]] and the [[Marshall Islands]], the heirs of the last territories of the Trust, attained final independence on 22 December 1990. (The UN Security Council ratified termination of trusteeship, effectively dissolving trusteeship status, on 10 July 1987.) The [[Palau|Republic of Palau]], split off from the [[Federated States of Micronesia]], became the last to effectively |
Remnant [[Micronesia]] and the [[Marshall Islands]], the heirs of the last territories of the Trust, attained final independence on 22 December 1990. (The UN Security Council ratified termination of trusteeship, effectively dissolving trusteeship status, on 10 July 1987.) The [[Palau|Republic of Palau]], split off from the [[Federated States of Micronesia]], became the last to effectively gain its independence, on 1 October 1994. |
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==See also== |
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* [[United Nations trust territories]] |
* [[United Nations trust territories]] |
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==Sources and references== |
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* Anghie, Antony "Colonialism and the Birth of International Institutions: Sovereignty, Economy, and the Mandate System of the League of Nations" 34 (3) New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 513 (2002) |
* Anghie, Antony "Colonialism and the Birth of International Institutions: Sovereignty, Economy, and the Mandate System of the League of Nations" 34 (3) New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 513 (2002) |
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* {{cite book|last=Hall|first=H. Duncan|title=Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeship|date=1948|url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55036/page/n315}} |
* {{cite book|last=Hall|first=H. Duncan|title=Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeship|date=1948|url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55036/page/n315}} |
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* Nele Matz, [http://www.mpil.de/files/pdf2/mpunyb_matz_9_47_95.pdf Civilization and the Mandate System under the League of Nations as Origin of Trusteeship], in: A. von Bogdandy and R. Wolfrum, (eds.), Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Volume |
* Nele Matz, [http://www.mpil.de/files/pdf2/mpunyb_matz_9_47_95.pdf Civilization and the Mandate System under the League of Nations as Origin of Trusteeship], in: A. von Bogdandy and R. Wolfrum, (eds.), Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Volume 9, 2005, p. 47–95. |
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* Pugh, Jeffrey, "[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262864875_Whose_Brother%27s_Keeper_International_Trusteeship_and_the_Search_for_Peace_in_the_Palestinian_Territories Whose Brother's Keeper? International Trusteeship and the Search for Peace in the Palestinian Territories]", ''International Studies Perspectives'' 13, no. |
* Pugh, Jeffrey, "[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262864875_Whose_Brother%27s_Keeper_International_Trusteeship_and_the_Search_for_Peace_in_the_Palestinian_Territories Whose Brother's Keeper? International Trusteeship and the Search for Peace in the Palestinian Territories]", ''International Studies Perspectives'' 13, no. 4 (November 2012): 321–343. |
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* Tamburini, Francesco "I mandati della Società delle Nazioni", in ''Africana, Rivista di Studi Extraeuropei'', n.XV – 2009, pp. |
* Tamburini, Francesco "I mandati della Società delle Nazioni", in ''Africana, Rivista di Studi Extraeuropei'', n.XV – 2009, pp. 99–122. |
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* {{cite book|last=Wright|first=Quincy|author-link=Quincy Wright|title=Mandates Under the League of Nations|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027342156|year=1968|publisher=Greenwood Press}} |
* {{cite book|last=Wright|first=Quincy|author-link=Quincy Wright|title=Mandates Under the League of Nations|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027342156|year=1968|publisher=Greenwood Press}} |
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==Further reading== |
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* Bruce, Scot David, ''Woodrow Wilson's Colonial Emissary: Edward M. House and the Origins of the Mandate System, 1917–1919'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2013). |
* Bruce, Scot David, ''Woodrow Wilson's Colonial Emissary: Edward M. House and the Origins of the Mandate System, 1917–1919'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2013). |
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* Callahan, Michael D. ''Mandates and empire: the League of Nations and Africa, 1914–1931'' (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999) |
* Callahan, Michael D. ''Mandates and empire: the League of Nations and Africa, 1914–1931'' (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999) |
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* Mazower, Mark. 2013. ''No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations''. Princeton University Press. |
* Mazower, Mark. 2013. ''No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations''. Princeton University Press. |
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* [[Susan Pedersen (historian)|Pedersen, Susan]]. ''The Guardians: the League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire,'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) |
* [[Susan Pedersen (historian)|Pedersen, Susan]]. ''The Guardians: the League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire,'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) |
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* Sluglett, Peter. "An improvement on colonialism? The 'A' mandates and their legacy in the Middle East," ''International Affairs'' (2014) 90#2 pp. |
* Sluglett, Peter. "An improvement on colonialism? The 'A' mandates and their legacy in the Middle East," ''International Affairs'' (2014) 90#2 pp. 413–427. On the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire |
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==References== |
==References== |
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A League of Nations mandate represented a legal status under international law for specific territories following World War I, involving the transfer of control from one nation to another. These mandates served as legal documents establishing the internationally agreed terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League of Nations. Combining elements of both a treaty and a constitution, these mandates contained minority rights clauses that provided for the rights of petition and adjudication by the Permanent Court of International Justice.[1]
The mandate system was established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, entered into force on 28 June 1919. With the dissolution of the League of Nations after World War II, it was stipulated at the Yalta Conference that the remaining mandates should be placed under the trusteeship of the United Nations, subject to future discussions and formal agreements. Most of the remaining mandates of the League of Nations (with the exception of South West Africa) thus eventually became United Nations trust territories.
Two governing principles formed the core of the Mandate System, being non-annexation of the territory and its administration as a "sacred trust of civilisation" to develop the territory for the benefit of its native people.[2]
According to historian Susan Pedersen, colonial administration in the mandates did not differ substantially from colonial administration elsewhere. Even though the Covenant of the League committed the great powers to govern the mandates differently, the main difference appeared to be that the colonial powers spoke differently about the mandates than their other colonial possessions.[3]
Basis
The mandate system was established by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, drafted by the victors of World War I. The article referred to territories which after the war were no longer ruled by their previous sovereign, but their peoples were not considered "able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world". The article called for such people's tutelage to be "entrusted to advanced nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position can best undertake this responsibility".[4]
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and South African General Jan Smuts played influential roles in pushing for the establishment of a mandates system.[5] The mandates system reflected a compromise between Smuts (who wanted colonial powers to annex the territories) and Wilson (who wanted trusteeship over the territories).[6][7]
Generalities
All of the territories subject to League of Nations mandates were previously controlled by states defeated in World War I, principally Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire. The mandates were fundamentally different from the protectorates in that the mandatory power undertook obligations to the inhabitants of the territory and to the League of Nations.
The process of establishing the mandates consisted of two phases:
- The formal removal of sovereignty of the state previously controlling the territory.
- The transfer of mandatory powers to individual states among the Allied Powers.
Treaties
The divestiture of Germany's overseas colonies, along with three territories disentangled from its European homeland area (the Free City of Danzig, the Memel Territory, and the Saar), was accomplished in the Treaty of Versailles (1919), with the territories being allotted among the Allies on 7 May of that year. Ottoman territorial claims were first addressed in the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) and finalised in the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). The Ottoman territories were allotted among the Allied Powers at the San Remo conference in 1920.
Types of mandates
- Red: Class A (ex Ottoman)
- Blue: Class B (ex German Central Africa)
- Yellow: Class C (ex German South West Africa and Pacific)
The League of Nations decided the exact level of control by the mandatory power over each mandate on an individual basis. However, in every case the mandatory power was forbidden to construct fortifications or raise an army within the territory of the mandate, and was required to present an annual report on the territory to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations.
The mandates were divided into three distinct groups based upon the level of development each population had achieved at that time.
Class A mandates
The first group, or Class A mandates, were territories formerly controlled by the Ottoman Empire that were deemed to "... have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognised subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone. The wishes of these communities must be a principal consideration in the selection of the Mandatory."
Class B mandates
The second group of mandates, or Class B mandates, were all former German colonies in West and Central Africa, referred to by Germany as Schutzgebiete (protectorates or territories), which were deemed to require a greater level of control by the mandatory power: "...the Mandatory must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience and religion." The mandatory power was forbidden to construct military or naval bases within the mandates.
Class C mandates
Class C mandates, including South West Africa and the South Pacific Islands, were considered to be "best administered under the laws of the Mandatory as integral portions of its territory."
List of mandates
Class | Mandate | Territory | Mandate Power | Prior name | Prior sovereignty | Comments | Current state | Document |
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A | Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon | Various Ottoman sanjaks | 29 September 1923 – 24 October 1945. Joined the United Nations on 24 October 1945 as an independent state and Founding Member | |||||
Various Ottoman sanjaks | 29 September 1923 – 24 October 1945: This mandate included Hatay Province (a former Ottoman Alexandretta sanjak), which broke away from the mandate on 2 September 1938 to become a separate French protectorate, which lasted until Hatay Province was ceded to the new Republic of Turkey on 29 June 1939. Joined the United Nations on 24 October 1945 as an independent state | |||||||
Mandate for Palestine | Ottoman sanjaks of Jerusalem, Nablus, and Acre | 29 September 1923 – 15 May 1948.[8][9][10] A United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine for peacefully dividing the remainder of the Mandate failed.[11] The Mandate terminated at midnight between 14 May and 15 May 1948. On the evening of 14 May, the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine had declared the establishment of the State of Israel.[12] Following the war, 75% of the area was controlled by the new State of Israel.[13] Other parts, until 1967, formed the West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the All-Palestine Government under the Egyptian-controlled Gaza Strip. | ||||||
Ottoman sanjaks of Hauran and Ma'an | In April 1921, the Emirate of Transjordan was provisionally added as an autonomous area under the United Kingdom,[14][15] and it became the independent Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan (later Jordan) on 17 June 1946 upon joint ratification of the Treaty of London of 1946. | |||||||
Indirect | Various Ottoman sanjaks | The draft British Mandate for Mesopotamia was not enacted and was replaced by the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of October 1922.[16] Britain committed to act the responsibilities of a Mandatory Power in 1924.[17] Iraq attained independence from the United Kingdom on 3 October 1932. | ||||||
B | Belgian Mandate for East Africa | From 20 July 1922 to 13 December 1946. Formerly two separate German protectorates, they were joined as a single mandate on 20 July 1922. From 1 March 1926 to 30 June 1960, Ruanda-Urundi was in administrative union with the neighbouring colony of the Belgian Congo. After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations trust territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of Rwanda and Burundi gained independence on 1 July 1962. | ||||||
British Mandate for East Africa[18] | From 20 July 1922 to 11 December 1946. It became a United Nations trust territory on 11 December 1946, and was granted internal self-rule on 1 May 1961. On 9 December 1961, it became independent while retaining the British monarch as nominal head of state, transforming into a republic on the same day the next year. On 26 April 1964, Tanganyika merged with the neighbouring island of Zanzibar to become the modern nation of Tanzania. | Equivalent document as for Ruanda-Urundi, with all articles substantially the same[19] | ||||||
British Mandate for the Cameroons | Became part of the United Nations trust territories after World War II on 13 December 1946 | Part of |
Equivalent document as for French Cameroons, with all articles substantially the same[20] | |||||
French Mandate for the Cameroons | Under a Resident and a Commissioner until 27 August 1940, then under a governor. Became part of the United Nations trust territories after World War II on 13 December 1946 | |||||||
British Mandate for Togoland | British Administrator post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast (present day Ghana) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson). Transformed on 13 December 1946 into a United Nations trust territory; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana. | Volta Region, |
Equivalent document as for French Togoland, with all articles substantially the same[20] | |||||
French Mandate for Togoland | French Togoland under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as the Autonomous Republic of Togo | |||||||
C | Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean situated South of the Equator other than German Samoa and Nauru | Included German New Guinea and "the group of islands in the Pacific Ocean lying south of the equator other than German Samoa and Nauru".[21] From 17 December 1920 under an (at first Military) Administrator; after (wartime) Japanese/U.S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea (under Australia, as administrative unit), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975 | Part of |
Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same[21] | ||||
Mandate for Nauru | British mandate, administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Became part of the United Nations trust territories after liberation from Japanese occupation in World War II | |||||||
Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean lying North of the Equator[22] | Known as the South Seas Mandate. Became part of the United Nations trust territories and administered by the United States after World War II | Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same[21] | ||||||
Mandate for German Samoa | From 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa (as opposed to American Samoa), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its independence on 1 January 1962 | Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same[21] | ||||||
Mandate for German South West Africa | From 1 October 1922, Walvis Bay's administration (still merely having a Magistrate until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, hence a Mayor) was also assigned to the mandate. | Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same[21] |
Rules of establishment
According to the Council of the League of Nations, meeting of August 1920:[24] "draft mandates adopted by the Allied and Associated Powers would not be definitive until they had been considered and approved by the League... the legal title held by the mandatory Power must be a double one: one conferred by the Principal Powers and the other conferred by the League of Nations."[25]
Three steps were required to establish a Mandate under international law: (1) The Principal Allied and Associated Powers confer a mandate on one of their number or on a third power; (2) the principal powers officially notify the council of the League of Nations that a certain power has been appointed mandatory for such a certain defined territory; and (3) the council of the League of Nations takes official cognisance of the appointment of the mandatory power and informs the latter that it [the council] considers it as invested with the mandate, and at the same time notifies it of the terms of the mandate, after ascertaining whether they are in conformance with the provisions of the covenant."[25][26]
The U.S. State Department's Digest of International Law says that the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne provided for the application of the principles of state succession to the "A" Mandates. The Treaty of Versailles provisionally recognised the former Ottoman communities as independent nations.[4] It also required Germany to recognise the disposition of the former Ottoman territories and to recognise the new states laid down within their boundaries.[27] The terms of the Treaty of Lausanne required the newly created states that acquired the territory detached from the Ottoman Empire to pay annuities on the Ottoman public debt and to assume responsibility for the administration of concessions that had been granted by the Ottomans. The treaty also let the States acquire, without payment, all the property and possessions of the Ottoman Empire situated within their territory.[28] The treaty provided that the League of Nations was responsible for establishing an arbitral court to resolve disputes that might arise and stipulated that its decisions were final.[28]
A disagreement regarding the legal status and the portion of the annuities to be paid by the "A" mandates was settled when an Arbitrator ruled that some of the mandates contained more than one State:
The difficulty arises here how one is to regard the Asiatic countries under the British and French mandates. Iraq is a Kingdom in regard to which Great Britain has undertaken responsibilities equivalent to those of a Mandatory Power. Under the British mandate, Palestine and Transjordan have each an entirely separate organisation. We are, therefore, in the presence of three States sufficiently separate to be considered as distinct Parties. France has received a single mandate from the Council of the League of Nations, but in the countries subject to that mandate, one can distinguish two distinct States: Syria and the Lebanon, each State possessing its own constitution and a nationality clearly different from the other.[29]
Later history
After the United Nations was founded in 1945 and the League of Nations was disbanded, all but one of the mandated territories became United Nations trust territories, a roughly equivalent status.[11] In each case, the colonial power that held the mandate on each territory became the administering power of the trusteeship, except that of the Empire of Japan, which had been defeated in World War II, lost its mandate over the South Pacific islands, which became a "strategic trust territory" known as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under U.S. administration.
The sole exception to the transformation of the League of Nations mandates into UN trusteeships was that of South Africa and its mandated territory South West Africa. Rather than placing South West Africa under trusteeship like other former mandates, South Africa proposed annexation, a proposition rejected by the UN General Assembly. Despite South Africa's resistance, the International Court of Justice affirmed that South Africa continued to have international obligations regarding the South West Africa mandate. Eventually, in 1990, the mandated territory, now Namibia, gained independence, culminating from the Tripartite Accords and the resolution of the South African Border War — a prolonged guerrilla conflict against the apartheid regime that lasted from 1966 until 1990.
Nearly all the former League of Nations mandates had become sovereign states by 1990, including all of the former UN trust territories with the exception of a few successor entities of the gradually dismembered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (formerly Japan's South Pacific Trust Mandate). These exceptions include the Northern Mariana Islands which is a commonwealth in political union with the U.S. with the status of unincorporated organised territory. The Northern Mariana Islands does elect its own governor to serve as territorial head of government, but it remains a U.S. territory with its head of state being the President of the United States and federal funds to the commonwealth administered by the Office of Insular Affairs of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Remnant Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, the heirs of the last territories of the Trust, attained final independence on 22 December 1990. (The UN Security Council ratified termination of trusteeship, effectively dissolving trusteeship status, on 10 July 1987.) The Republic of Palau, split off from the Federated States of Micronesia, became the last to effectively gain its independence, on 1 October 1994.
See also
Sources and references
- Anghie, Antony "Colonialism and the Birth of International Institutions: Sovereignty, Economy, and the Mandate System of the League of Nations" 34 (3) New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 513 (2002)
- Hall, H. Duncan (1948). Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeship.
- Nele Matz, Civilization and the Mandate System under the League of Nations as Origin of Trusteeship, in: A. von Bogdandy and R. Wolfrum, (eds.), Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Volume 9, 2005, p. 47–95.
- Pugh, Jeffrey, "Whose Brother's Keeper? International Trusteeship and the Search for Peace in the Palestinian Territories", International Studies Perspectives 13, no. 4 (November 2012): 321–343.
- Tamburini, Francesco "I mandati della Società delle Nazioni", in Africana, Rivista di Studi Extraeuropei, n.XV – 2009, pp. 99–122.
- Wright, Quincy (1968). Mandates Under the League of Nations. Greenwood Press.
Further reading
- Bruce, Scot David, Woodrow Wilson's Colonial Emissary: Edward M. House and the Origins of the Mandate System, 1917–1919 (University of Nebraska Press, 2013).
- Callahan, Michael D. Mandates and empire: the League of Nations and Africa, 1914–1931 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999)
- Haas, Ernst B. "The reconciliation of conflicting colonial policy aims: acceptance of the League of Nations mandate system," International Organization (1952) 6#4 pp: 521–536.
- Margalith, Aaron M. The International Mandates (1930) online Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine[ISBN missing]
- Mazower, Mark. 2013. No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. Princeton University Press.
- Pedersen, Susan. The Guardians: the League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
- Sluglett, Peter. "An improvement on colonialism? The 'A' mandates and their legacy in the Middle East," International Affairs (2014) 90#2 pp. 413–427. On the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire
References
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- ^ Matz, 2005, pp 70-71, "Primarily, two elements formed the core of the Mandate System, the principle of non-annexation of the territory on the one hand and its administration as a 'sacred trust of civilisation' on the other... The principle of administration as a 'sacred trust of civilisation' was designed to prevent a practice of imperial exploitation of the mandated territory in contrast to former colonial habits. Instead, the Mandatory's administration should assist in developing the territory for the well-being of its native people."
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70. Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the First World War, a class "A" Mandate for Palestine was entrusted to Great Britain by the League of Nations, pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article 22 of the Covenant
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LONDON, July 19. – The A mandates, which govern the British occupation of Palestine and the French occupation of Syria, came today before the Council of the League of Nations.
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- ^ Treaty of Peace and South West Africa Mandate Bill of 1919
- ^ (pp. 109–110)
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- ^ See also: Temperley, History of the Paris Peace Conference, Vol VI, pp. 505–506; League of Nations, The Mandates System (official publication of 1945); Hill, Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeship, pp. 133ff.
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- ^ a b "Article 47, 60, and Protocol XII, Article 9 of the Treaty of Lausanne". Archived from the original on 2013-01-12. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
- ^ See Marjorie M. Whiteman, Digest of International Law, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1963) pp. 650–652, 21 Apr. 2010