The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 1946 · 45 citations · 0 references
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The paper examines the protection of human rights in mandated territories under the League of Nations, defining the subject for discussion. The study aims to answer questions about human rights protection in mandated territories, a task of both future significance and immediate interest to the author. The analysis is conducted through the lens of the intentions of the drafters of the relevant clauses of the San Francisco Charter.
trative practice. To answer them finally is a task for the future. But these questions are also of special and immediate interest to the author of this study. Asked by the editors of this volume to discuss the protection of human rights in mandated territories under the League of Nations, I must first define my subject. And that I can do only in the light of their intentions, which I take to be identical with those of the drafters of the relevant clauses of the San Francisco Charter.