The System of International Trusteeship

Abstract

One is that no mandated area inhabited by peoples of African or mixed African descent' had made any appreciable progress toward selfgovernment or independence between 1919 and 1939. By contrast Iraq was given her Syria and the Lebanon were promised independence and Trans-Jordan has recently been promised independence. Of the mandated areas inhabited by peoples who are not of African or mixed African descent, only Palestine has not been given or not promised independence, and the special circumstances in Palestine are well known. Second, the mandate system had not appreciably improved the wellbeing of the African peoples in Africa and in the Pacific in some respects. The author of this article published statistical evidence showing, for example, the infinitesimally small sums spent on education in Africa through