EVENT INFORMATION

10
January
1920

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

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📅 10 January 1920 📍 Palestine

Purportedly concerned about the well-being and development of peoples that have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and are “not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world,” the drafters of the League of Nations Covenant (that enters into force on 10 January) provide in its Article 22 for a tutelage “entrusted to advanced nations” as the well-being of these people constitutes “a sacred trust of civilization.” Paragraph 4 of Article 22 stipulates that “certain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of….

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