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This study focuses on contestation over Namibia’s independence. Before the territory became independent on 21 March 1990, it had changed its status from a German colony, to a protectorate of the Union of South Africa, to a mandated territory of the League of Nations and, finally, to a direct responsibility of the United Nations Organization (UNO), while under South Africa’s illegal occupation.
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Hamilton Foley, Woodrow Wilson’s Case for the League of Nations (New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1965), pp. 46–7.
See, for example, Gail-Maryse Cockram, South West African Mandate (Cape Town: Juta & Co. Ltd., 1976), pp. 41–2.
John Morton Blum, Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality (Boston: Little, Brown, 1956), pp. 147 and 148;
Faye Carroll, South West Africa and the United Nations (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967), pp. 22 and 24.
Hassel D. Hall, Mandates, Dependencies and Trusteeship (London: Stevens & Sons, 1948), p. 94.
Thomas A. Bailey, Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1944), p. 169.
S. Slonim, ‘The Origins of the South West Africa Dispute: The Versailles Peace Conference and the Creation of the Mandates System’, in John Dugard, ed., The South West Africa/Namibia Dispute: Documents and Scholarly Writings on the Controversy Between South Africa and the United Nations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), p. 47.
W.K. Hancock and Jean Van der Poel, eds., Selections from Smut’s Papers Vol. IV (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966), p. 77. Amery was Assistant Secretary of the Imperial War Cabinet.
Slonim in Dugard, The South West Africa/Namibia Dispute, pp. 58–60; Seth P. Tillman, Anglo-American Relations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961), pp. 93–4.
Harold S. Johnson, Self-Determination Within the Community of Nations (Leyden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1967), pp. 33–4.
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Kaela, L.C.W. (1996). Introduction. In: The Question of Namibia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24996-1_1
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