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Title

  • Mandate for Palestine and Memorandum by the British Government Relating to its Application to Transjordan.

Other Title

  • Mandat pour la Palestine et mémorandum du gouvernement britannique relatif a l'application de ce mandat à la Transjordanie/ Mandate for Palestine and Memorandum by the British Government Relating to its Application to Transjordan

Summary

  • After World War I, the Covenant of the League of Nations established a system by which the League was empowered to confer upon certain of the victorious powers mandates to administer territories formerly ruled by Germany or the Ottoman Empire. Mandated territories were to be governed on behalf of the League, until such time as they could become independent. On September 16, 1922, the Council of the League approved a mandate to Great Britain for Palestine, previously part of the Ottoman Empire. The mandate provided for the eventual creation of a Jewish state, as specified in Article 2: "The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of a Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion." Successive articles dealt with Jewish immigration, public administration, access to holy places and religious buildings, public health, commerce, and other matters. Appended to the mandate was a memorandum by the British government, also approved by the Council of the League, stating its understanding that the provisions of the mandate relating to the establishment of a Jewish national home and the promotion of Jewish immigration were not to apply to that portion of the mandated territory known as Transjordan, i.e., territory east of the Jordan River. The texts are in French and English, on facing pages. The mandate is in the archives of the League, which were transferred to the United Nations in 1946 and are housed at the UN office in Geneva. The archives were inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2010.

Names

  • Great Britain Contributor.
  • League of Nations. Council Author.

Created / Published

  • Geneva : League of Nations, 1922-08-16.

Headings

  • -  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • -  Israel
  • -  Jordan
  • -  1926-08-02
  • -  League of Nations
  • -  Mandates
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Politics and government
  • -  Territorial questions
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 8 pages.
  • -  Original resource at: United Nations Office at Geneva Library.
  • -  Content in English and French.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • League of Nations Archives

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666887

Online Format

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  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Great Britain Contributor, and League Of Nations. Council Author. Mandate for Palestine and Memorandum by the British Government Relating to its Application to Transjordan. Geneva: League of Nations, -08-16, 1922. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666887/.

APA citation style:

Great Britain Contributor & League Of Nations. Council Author. (1922) Mandate for Palestine and Memorandum by the British Government Relating to its Application to Transjordan. Geneva: League of Nations, -08-16. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666887/.

MLA citation style:

Great Britain Contributor, and League Of Nations. Council Author. Mandate for Palestine and Memorandum by the British Government Relating to its Application to Transjordan. Geneva: League of Nations, -08-16, 1922. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666887/>.