USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

[SOURCES]
Which Commission/Committee was charged with maintaining Germany’s former colonies?

(A) The Refugees Committee

(B) The Slavery Commission

(C) The Health Committee

(D) ** The Mandates Commission

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) was the commission of the League of Nations responsible for oversight of mandated territories. The commission was established on 1 December 1920 and was headquartered at Geneva.

Concept note-2: -control of mandated territories included nongovernmental representatives, and the Mandates Commission exercised slight supervision over colonies of the defeated powers, which had been distributed to the victors technically as mandates of the League.

Concept note-3: -The mandate system was a compromise between the Allies’ wish to retain the former German and Turkish colonies and their pre-Armistice declaration (November 5, 1918) that annexation of territory was not their aim in the war.

Concept note-4: -These were of the nature of both a treaty and constitution which contained minority rights clauses that provided for the right of petition and adjudication by the International Court. [1] The mandate system was established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, entered into on 28 June 1919.