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  • Looking with their eyes and feeling with their hearts: The Permanent Mandates Commission and reform in the mandates

    Author(s)
    Paisley, Fiona
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Paisley, Fiona K.
    Year published
    2018
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    In 1921 Anna Bugge-Wicksell,1 a lawyer and internationalist born in Norway and working in Sweden, was appointed the first female member of the Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) in the Mandates 'Section of the League Secretariat. Only one year later, in a bumpy start to its first formal sitting in Geneva, Wicksell was embroiled in a public falling out between the Commission and Australia's representative. After travelling from London to answer questions on Australia's first two years as the mandated power in Nauru and New Guinea, the Australian High Commissioner Joseph Cook found himself cross-examined over insufficient ...
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    In 1921 Anna Bugge-Wicksell,1 a lawyer and internationalist born in Norway and working in Sweden, was appointed the first female member of the Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) in the Mandates 'Section of the League Secretariat. Only one year later, in a bumpy start to its first formal sitting in Geneva, Wicksell was embroiled in a public falling out between the Commission and Australia's representative. After travelling from London to answer questions on Australia's first two years as the mandated power in Nauru and New Guinea, the Australian High Commissioner Joseph Cook found himself cross-examined over insufficient information on labour conditions in the phosphate mining industry on Nauru then monopolised by a consortium comprising Britain, Australia and New Zealand.2 The confrontation over the rights of workers and the monopoly enjoyed by the Australian mandate over them was to make headlines in Australia and around the world.
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    Book Title
    League of Nations: Histories, Legacies and Impact
    Publisher URI
    https://www.mup.com.au/books/league-of-nations-electronic-book-text
    Subject
    Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380581
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