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Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2009, 203pp., ISBN-9780691135212, $24.95/£16.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

Otto Spijkers
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 261 - 266
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2011

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References

1 Minutes of the Seventh Plenary Session, 1 May 1945, in The United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, California, April 25 to June 26, 1945: Selected Documents (1946), Vol. I, at 504.

2 See, e.g., C. Heyns, ‘The Preamble of the United Nations Charter: The Contribution of Jan Smuts’, (1995) 7 Afr. JICL 329; Tothill, D., ‘Evatt and Smuts in San Francisco’, (2007) 96 The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 177CrossRefGoogle Scholar. However, in ‘Préambule’, in J. Cot and A. Pellet, La Charte des Nations Unies: Commentaire article par article, Vol. I (2005), at 289, Smuts is detached from the apartheid system.

3 Tothill, ibid., at 186.

4 Heyns, supra note 2, at 348.

5 J. C. Smuts, The League of Nations: A Practical Suggestion (1919).

6 See Treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa, UN Doc. A/RES/44(I) (1946) for statements. See also subsequent resolutions, e.g., UN Doc. A/RES/265(III) (1949); UN Doc. A/RES/395(V) (1950); and UN Doc. A/RES/511(VI) (1952).

7 ‘“Old League” Chief Quits Conference’, New York Times, 27 May 1945, 19.

8 E. L. James, ‘ Wilson Forgotten at San Francisco’, New York Times, 30 April 1945, 10.

9 One of the most important examples is H. Kelsen, ‘The Old and the New League: The Covenant and the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals’, (1945) 39 AJIL 45. In the newspapers, the comparison was also often made. See, e.g., N. McNeil, ‘A New Kind of League, a New Kind of World’, New York Times, 24 June 1945, 55.