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reporting obligations of nations and his crucial finding was that, whilst the
Administrative reporting and monitoring duties ceased on the dissolution of the League of Nations, the moral obligations of the Mandate state continued beyond the dissolution of the League and such an obligation was essentially binding on the Union of South Africa. This was the defining moment of his career and an indelible legacy to
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and upon which South Africa had exercised control of the territory and its people) and more specifically as to whether South Africa had properly exercised its mandate or whether it should be condemned for having failed to properly exercise this mandate – by its illegal treatment of the said people.
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Sir Louis died in 1977, in many people's view without his country having had the full value of his knowledge and ability as a jurist and statesman; however, his legacy was to open doors for several of his kinsmen to pursue careers at the bar as well as his sterling career as a barrister and
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to effectively take the noble step of ending the war, the surrender being effectively signed by Major-General Philip
Effiong. History will judge Sir Louis and Major-General Philip Effiong as men of sterling courage and integrity who effectively negotiated an end to hostilities.
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and worked actively towards a diplomatic resolution of the crisis. He remained in Biafra till the very end, after the
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