Commission of Government
Under the Treaty of Versailles, the highly industrialized Saarland was to be occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France under a League of Nations mandate for a period of fifteen years. Its coalfields were also to be ceded to France. During this time, the Saarland was governed by a five-person Commission made up of representatives of the occupation forces. Under the terms of the mandate, the Commission had to include at least one French person and one German resident of the Saar. After that time, a plebiscite would be implemented to determine the Saar's future status.
The Territory comprised the portions of the Prussian Rhine Province and the Bavarian Palatinate of the Rhine and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, whith had a significant number of the miners, working in the Saar coal mines, among the population. It issued its own postage stamps and currency (the Saar franc).
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