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  1. 5 days ago · This plan, defined as the mandate system, was adopted by the "Council of Ten" (the heads of government and foreign ministers of the main Allied powers: Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Japan) on 30 January 1919 and transmitted to the League of Nations. League of Nations mandates were established under Article 22 of the Covenant of ...

  2. 2 days ago · Tientsin (Concession) Bhutan – Kingdom of Bhutan (to January 8, 1910) Capital: Thimphu. Widely recognized state. Bolivia – Republic of Bolivia. Capital: Sucre. Widely recognized state. Brazil – Republic of the United States of Brazil. Capital: Rio de Janeiro.

  3. 2 days ago · v. t. e. Self-determination [1] refers to a people 's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. [2] [3] Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law, binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of ...

  4. 3 days ago · The League of Nations, weakened by its earlier failures and the absence of key players like the United States, proved largely powerless to counter this rising tide of aggression. The organization‘s attempts to promote disarmament and maintain the status quo were repeatedly undermined by the actions of the fascist powers, who withdrew from the ...

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  6. 5 days ago · The Council of the League of Nations: Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to entrust to a Mandatory selected by the said Powers the administration of the territory of Palestine, which formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries as may be fixed by them; and

  7. 5 days ago · France transferred the Alexandretta district from its Syrian mandate to Turkey in 1939, using the League Council to override the objections of the Mandates Commission. Great Britain, which had long deferred to the pro-Zionist majority of the PMC, now found that in Palestine the logic of interest was irresistible and that ‘imperial imperatives ...

  8. 1 day ago · United Nations (UN), international organization established on October 24, 1945. The United Nations (UN) was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership. Its predecessor, the League of Nations, was created by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and disbanded in 1946.

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