mandate



A mandate was a territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the national leagues. The mandate system was established under Article 22 of the covenant of the league of nations. It was a stipulatedt the Yalta Conference that the remaining mandates should be placed under the trusteeship of the united nations.

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