Trans-Jordan memorandum: Difference between revisions

The [[British Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate]] administration in Jerusalem only ever covered the area west of the Jordan, while the area east of the Jordan was administered by the British representative in Ma'an, Captain [[Alec Kirkbride|Alex Kirkbride]]<ref>Avi Shlaim (2007) p 11</ref> until the arrival in November 1920 of [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah bin al-Hussein]], the future [[Emir]]. Following [[Franco-Syrian War|the expulsion of Faisal bin Hussein]] from Syria by the French in July 1920, the British decided in August 1920 to include Transjordan inand the Palestine Mandate.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040812133846/http://www.jafi.org.il/education/jafi75/timeline1a.html ''Timeline, Year 1920'']. Jewish Agency for Israel, 1992-2004</ref> At thesubsequent [[Cairo Conference (1921)|Cairo Conference, March 1921]] they appointed Hussein ''Emir of Transjordan'', while assuring that no Jews would be allowed to settle in Transjordan<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ATQQ0FMS1FQC&pg=PA348 ''The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951''], p. 348. William Roger Louis, Clarendon Press, 1984</ref>