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  2. 2 days ago · The Permanent Mandates Commission supervised League of Nations mandates, and also organised plebiscites in disputed territories so that residents could decide which country they would join. There were three mandate classifications: A, B and C.

  3. 21 hours ago · The Abyssinian Crisis and the Failure of Collective Security. The Abyssinian Crisis of 1935-1936 further highlighted the League‘s inability to enforce its principles and maintain international order. In October 1935, Italian forces, under the leadership of Benito Mussolini, invaded the East African nation of Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia ...

  4. 2 days ago · The report further advised that an independent Palestinian state under a British League of Nations mandate be created. Jewish settlement would be allowed and encouraged in this state and this state's holy sites would be under the control of the League of Nations.

  5. 2 days ago · The Mandate for Palestine was a legal document that established the United Kingdom as a Mandatory in charge of Palestine and Transjordan following its occupation of the territories during World War I and their eventual concession from the Ottoman Empire in 1918.

  6. 2 days ago · Mandatory administrations were repeatedly enjoined to be firm, often with tragic results, as with the bloody suppression of the Samoan Mau in December 1929. British influence lessened after Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain’s ham-fisted attempt to curb the independence of the PMC in 1925.

  7. 5 days ago · The League of Nationsmandates were one manifestation of this, with their division into A, B and C mandates according to their perceived level of ‘civilisation’. Sluga convincingly highlights that ‘tutelage’ was the flip side of affirming the importance of a people’s ‘free will’.

  8. 2 days ago · In that year France, which administered Lebanon as a League of Nations mandate, established the state of Greater Lebanon. Lebanon then became a republic in 1926 and achieved independence in 1943.

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