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Treaties Conferring Rights in Mandated Territories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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On July 2, 1924, the President proclaimed two treaties signed with France on February 13, 1923, relating to rights in the French mandated territories of Cameroons and Togoland.1 A similar treaty was made with Japan on February 11,1922,2 and Secretary of State Hughes has announced the policy of securing “ fair and equal opportunities” in all the mandated territories.3

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1924

References

1 Treaty Series (U. S.) , Nos. 690, 691; Supplement, this Journal , pp. 189 and 193.Google ScholarPubMed

2 U. S. Treaties,1910-1923, Vol. 3, p. 2723, and comments by Gregory, C. N. , this Journal , Vol. 15, pp. 419-427, Vol. 16, pp. 248-251.Google Scholar

3 Address at Philadelphia, Nov. 30, 1923, Current History Magazine, Jan. 1924, p. 579, and address at New York, Jan. 23, 1924, this Journal, Vol. 18, p. 243. See also notes appended to Japanese treaty,Feb. 11, 1922,U. S. Treaties, Vol. 3, p. 2728.

4 The Federalist, No. 64 (Jay), No. 70 (Hamilton), Ford ed., pp. 429, 467.

5 Question might be raised whether, without the consent of the Council, she could exercise such sovereign powers as treaty-making with respect to mandated territory.

6 Wright, , Sovereignty of the Mandates, this Journal , Vol. 17, 699-700.Google Scholar