  {"id":204395,"date":"1923-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1923-09-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=204395"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:06:54","slug":"auto-insert-204395","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204395\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandate for Palestine &#8211; Extract of minutes of the Council of the League of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: center;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><strong>British Mandate for Palestine<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: center;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><strong>Minutes of Meeting of Council<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: center;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><strong>held at Geneva on September 29th, 1923.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">By the decision taken by the Council of the League of Nations on July 24th, 1922,\u00a0\u00a0the terms of the mandates for Syria and Palestine were approved with the understanding\u00a0\u00a0that these mandates should simultaneously come into force as soon as the President of the\u00a0\u00a0Council had been notified by the Governments of France and Italy that the negotiations then\u00a0\u00a0pending between them in regard to the mandate for Syria had resulted in a final agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">In the course of its meeting on September 29th last, the Council was duly informed by\u00a0\u00a0the representatives of France and Italy that the negotiations in question had resulted in a\u00a0\u00a0final agreement, and took note of the fact that the mandates for Syria and Palestine had\u00a0\u00a0thereby automatically and simultaneously entered into force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">I have the honour to communicate for your information the text of the minutes of the\u00a0\u00a0meeting of the Council bearing on the subject.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">I have the honour to be,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left: 320px\">Secretary-General.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace;margin-left: 380px\">Annex to C.L. 101.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: center;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">EXTRACT OF MINUTES OF MEETING OF COUNCIL HELD AT GENEVA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: center;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">ON SEPTEMBER\u00a029th, 1923.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: center;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\"><strong>BRITISH MANDATE FOR PALESTINE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">M. SALANDRA stated, on behalf of his Government, that a complete agreement had been\u00a0\u00a0reached between the Governments of France and Italy on the subject of the mandate for Syria.\u00a0\u00a0There was therefore nothing to prevent the immediate entry into force of the mandate for Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">M. HANOTAUX, on behalf of his Government, confirmed M. Salandra&#8217;s statement and pointed out that in view of this agreement the Council&#8217;s resolution of July 24th, 1922, would come into operation and the mandates for Palestine and Syria would enter into force\u00a0\u00a0automatically and at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">Sir Rennell RODD expressed his satisfaction that, this question had been finally settled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">The COUNCIL noted that, in view of the agreement between the Governments of France and Italy in respect of the mandate for Syria, the mandates for Palestine and Syria would\u00a0\u00a0now enter into force automatically and at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;text-align: center;font-size: 10pt;font-family: Courier New, serif, monospace\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Mandate for Palestine &nbsp; Minutes of Meeting of Council held at Geneva on September 29th, 1923. &nbsp; By the decision taken by the Council of the League of Nations on July 24th, 1922,\u00a0\u00a0the terms of the mandates for Syria and Palestine were approved with the understanding\u00a0\u00a0that these mandates should simultaneously come into force as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-204395\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2625,1323],"document-source":[1688],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1749],"entity":[1889],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-204395","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-meeting-record","document-category-report","document-source-league-of-nations","document-subject-palestine-question","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291502,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/204395\/revisions\/291502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=204395"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=204395"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=204395"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=204395"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=204395"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=204395"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=204395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}