<P> "There are still important details outstanding, such as the actual terms of the mandate and the question of the boundaries in Palestine . There is the delimitation of the boundary between French Syria and Palestine, which will constitute the northern frontier and the eastern line of demarcation, adjoining Arab Syria . The latter is not likely to be fixed until the Emir Faisal attends the Peace Conference, probably in Paris ." </P> <P> The mandate was a legal and administrative instrument, not a geographical territory . The territorial jurisdiction of the mandate was subject to change by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance or other lawful means . </P> <P> The document was based on the principles contained in Article 22 of the draft Covenant of the League of Nations and the San Remo Resolution of 25 April 1920 by the principal Allied and associated powers after the First World War . The mandate formalised British rule in the southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923--1948 . </P> <P> Each of the principal Allied powers had a hand in drafting the proposed mandate--although some, including the United States, had not declared war on the Ottoman Empire and did not become members of the League of Nations . </P>

Who gave britain the right to rule palestine