Middle East.- Draft Mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine as submitted for the Approval of the League of Nations, original staple binding, faint rust marks, small folio, 1921.

⁂ The Mandate for Palestine includes 27 articles relating, among other things, to the following: creating the political and economic conditions that will enable the establishment of a national home for the Jewish nation while maintaining the civil and religious rights of all the residents of the country; allocating lands for Jewish settlement; creating a functioning governance system - laws, economics, foreign relations, maintaining public order, protecting the holy places, protecting the freedom of conscience and freedom of religion; ensuring the status of English, Hebrew and Arabic as official languages; and more. Formulating the Mandate for Palestine took two years and on 24 July 1922, after corrections and revisions, it was accepted by the Council of the League of Nations and became an internationally binding document.