A League of Nations Mandate was what they called it when one
area was put under the direction of another for the purposes of the
League of Nations
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It's usually referred to the British Mandate of Palestine. It
was territory won from the Ottoman Empire in 1917-18 (World War 1).
From 1945-48 it was a United Nations mandate, before that a League
of Nations mandate.