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A verbose memorandum on the situation in Palestine, of which the final statement is (unbeknown to the writer) the most important: The courage, imagination and will to compromise required to achieve these ends (i.e. peace) cannot be imposed but must be sought from the two peoples primarily concerned.
The mandate for Palestine was given to Great Britain at San Remo on April 25, 1920, and a civil administration (which superseded the British Military Administration), headed by Sir Herbert Samuel, was effected on July 1, 1920. The mandate itself was ratified by the Council of the League of Nations on June 24, 1922. A special American-British Palestine Mandate Convention was ratified in March 1925, as the United States was not a member of the League of Nations. In this convention the United States agreed to the terms of the mandate and Great Britain agreed that no modification in these terms would be possible without the assent of the United States (art. 7); thus any modification in the mandate needed the assent of both the League of Nations and the United States. The mandate terminated with the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
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