Convention between Great Britain and the United States on Palestine. British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: The Mandate Volume I - Page 11

CHAPTER I.

The present instrument shall be deposited in original in the archives of the League of Nations and certified copies shall be forwarded by the Secretary General of the League of Nations to all Members of the League.

DONE AT LONDON the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two."

Convention between Great Britain and the United States.

6. After agreement had been reached between the Governments of the United States and of Great Britain as to the terms of the Palestine Mandate negotiations were opened for the conclusion of a treaty safeguarding American interests in Palestine. The outcome was the signature on the 3rd December, 1924, of a "Convention between the United Kingdom and the United States of America respecting the Rights of the Governments of the two Countries and their respective nationals in Palestine''. The full text of this Convention is given below :-

"WHEREAS by the Treaty of Peace concluded with the Allied Powers, Turkey renounces all her rights and titles over Palestine; and

WHEREAS Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations as embodied in the Treaty of Versailles provides that, in the case of certain territories which, as a consequence of the late war. ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them, mandates should be issued, and that the terms of the mandate should be explicitly defined in each case by the Council of the League; and

WHEREAS the Principal Allied Powers have agreed to entrust the mandate for Palestine To His Britannic Majesty; and

WHEREAS the terms of the said mandate have been defined by the Council of the League of Na ti ons, as follows :-

(Here follows the text of the Palestine Mandate).

WHEREAS the mandate in the above terms came into force on the 29th September, 1923; and

WHEREAS the United States of America., by participating in the war against Germany, contributed to her defeat and the defeat of her Allies, and to the renunciation of the rights and titles of her Allies in the territory transferred by them but has not rati£ed the Covenant of the League of Nations embodied in the Treaty of Versailles; and

WHEREAS the Government of the United States and the Government of His Britannic Majesty desire to reach a definite understanding with respect to the rights of the two 'Governments and their respective nationals in Palestine;

The President of the United States of America and His Britannic Majesty have decided to conclude a convention to this effect, and have named as their plenipotentiaries:-

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