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Sleight-of-Hand on Palestine at the League of Nations: How the alteration of a verb tense “legalized” Britain’s mandate
[John B. Quigley is Professor Emeritus at the Moritz College of Law of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio USA] On October 3, 1923, a telegram marked “urgent” was sent to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, Eric Drummond, in Geneva. It read: “may h[is] m[ajesty’s] g[overnment] assume officially that mandate for Palestine entered into force as from September...