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Title: | The South West African Origins of the 'Sacred Trust', 1914-1919 |
Author: | Louis, William R. |
Year: | 1967 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 66 |
Issue: | 262 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 20-39 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Namibia |
Subjects: | mandated territories colonialism History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/720704 |
Abstract: | The recent developments in the South West Africa case before the International Court of Justice and the General Assembly of the U.N. have coincided with the opening of the British official records of the peace-making at Versailles. Therefore the author re-examines the origins of the South West Africa mandate. To the very end of World War I British as well as South African politicians assumed that the future of the German colony lay in annexation to the Union, but this assumption proved to be unfounded because of South Africa statesmanship as well as socialist and humanitarian influences. It is possible to discern the determination of South Africa to accept only a type of mandatory control that would imply no external interference, whether from Geneva or London. |