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Establishment of the Two Systems

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To the student of international organization, the process of implementation of the League Covenant and the United Nations Charter is peculiarly interesting and instructive since it demonstrates the intensity of power politics in the period of post-war reconstruction. Both of these multilateral instruments had formulated the structural framework for collective peace and security, and had significantly left the precise procedure of their enforcement to the discretion of the original signatories. In both cases, there was a hiatus, which was essentially a period of suspense from the international standpoint, between the adoption of the Covenant and the Charter on the one hand, and the approval of the Mandates and Trust Agreements on the other as shown below: Besides, the final settlement of the legal status of the ex-enemy colonies which were placed under international supervision was made in both cases within four years of the cessation of hostilities. Thus, considerable delay, which was the common feature, reflected procedural difficulties and political controversies among the Principal Powers who were primarily responsible for the drafting of the new formula.

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