Book Review: Empire by Mandate
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205501000223 |
| Published date | 01 June 1955 |
| Author | W. A. Riddell |
| Date | 01 June 1955 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
150
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
EMPIRE
BY
MANDATE.
By
Campbell L.
Upthegrove.
1954.
(New
York:
Bookman
Associates.
239pp.
$3.50)
Empire
by
Mandate
is
a
history
of
the
relations
of
Great
Britain
with
the
Permanent
Mandates
Commission
of
the
League
of
Nations.
The
author,
an American
professor,
seems,
in
the
main,
to
have
considered
these
relations
to
have
been
satisfactory.
He
describes
the
organization
and
basis
of
the
Mandates
System
and
holds
that
it
was
the
continuation
of
"British
Colonial
practice"...
"internationalized."
The
internationalization
of
this
"practice"
naturally
raised
new
problems.
Some
of
the
more
important
he
lists
as:
(1)
The
British
Government's
fear
that
the
Mandates
Commission,
through
its
questionnaire,
"was
attempting
to
supervise and
assume
its
duties
directly";
(2)
Great
Britain's
right
to
delegate
the
Administration
of
Mandates
assigned
to
the
British
Empire
to
other
parts
of
the
Commonwealth
as
in
the
case
of
Nauru
to
Australia;
(3)
the
determination
of
the
criteria
under
which
a
Mandate
could
be
admitted
to
statehood;
(4)
reconciling
the
solutions
proposed
by
the
Mandatory
Power
and
the
Commission
respectively
for
the
settlement
of
the
national
claims
of
Arabs
and
Jews
in
Palestine.
It
is
argued
that
the
publication
of
this
study
in
1954,
al-
though
the
manuscript
was completed
in
1941,
is
fully
justified
since
it
"was
never
more
timely
than
it
is today,"
"when
the
least
advanced
peoples
of
the
earth
are
demanding
consideration
as
major
principals
in
the
world
power
struggle."
At
such
a
time
it
is
maintained
that
Great
Britain's
experience
as
a
Man-
datory
Power provides an
invaluable
guide.
The
book
is
well
documented
and
represents a
careful
study
of
British
Mandates.
It
is
somewhat
disappointing
that
no
at-
tempt
has
been made
either
by
introductory material
or
foot-
notes,
to
bring
the
reader
up-to-date
on
the
developments
in
these
territories
under
the
Trustee
System of
the
United
Nations.
Toronto
W.
A.
RIDDELL
TRADE
AND
DIPLOMACY
ON
THE
CHINA
COAST:
THE
OPENING
OF
THE
TREATY
PORTS,
1842-1854. By
John
King
Fairbank.
1953.
(Cambridge:
Harvard
University
Press;
Toronto:
S.
J.
Reginald Saunders.
Vol.
I.
xiii,
489pp.
$9.75)
CHINA'S
RESPONSE
TO
THE
WEST:
A
DOCUMENTARY
SURVEY,
1839-1923.
By
Ssu-yii
Teng
and
John
K.
Fairbank.
1954.
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