ABSTRACT
Millions of people around the globe heralded the creation of the League of Nations at the end of World War I as a grand new beginning in international relations. Nevertheless, among all of the various international instrumentalities of politics and diplomacy during the interwar years, the League of Nations offered the only hope available to those seeking to eliminate racial discrimination on a global scale. The handling of mandates by the League of Nations revealed yet another aspect of the same pattern. Despite solemn wartime promises about possible self-determination, the victorious powers attempted to continue their control of colonial territories by means of a mandate system. The experiences from the war forced many, as nothing else in history ever had been able to do before, to a turning point in their own attitudes and policies of racial power and prejudice.
