State your opinion: Trustee system adopted by League of Nations was failed.

Answer: I agree that the trustee (mandate) system of the League of Nations failed.

• After the First World War the colonies of defeated Germany and Turkey were handed over as mandates (trust territories) to Britain, France and other victors, to be prepared for self-rule.
• In practice these powers treated the territories like their own colonies and exploited their resources instead of preparing them for freedom.
• The League had no army or power to force the mandatory powers to fulfil their duty, and the USA was not even a member.
• So the people of these territories did not get independence; the system was replaced after the Second World War by the Trusteeship Council of the UN.