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Mandates under the League of nations/Quincy Wright. This volume focuses on the new institution of mandates established by the Peace treaties and the League of Nations Covenant. The institution has attracted interest from anumber of different points of view. Its establishment was an interesting incident of recent diplomatic history. Its conception was anotable triumph of statemanship in solving perhaps the most difficult dilemna of the Peace conference. In addition to this, the operation of the system throws light on the problem of international administration. Sovereign states have not been accustomed to submit systematic supervision, and this effort of the League of Nations to develop a procedure by which the greatest powers may be effectively supervised in the very delicate field of colonial administration is significant. Furthermore, the mandates system marks perhaps the most important innovation wrought by the peace treaties and the Covenant in the system of international law...... Finally, the mandates system has given wide publicity to discussions of the actual and ideal policy of European civilization toward the cultures of Asia, Africa and the Pacific, by competent administrators and responsible government representatives. The Four parts of this book are designed to approach the subject successively from the standpoint of these four types interest.