Content deleted Content added
m →Background: clean up from page move, replaced: → [[Mandatory Palestine| using [[Project:AWB|AWB |
Onceinawhile (talk | contribs) →Description: +memo |
||
Line 9:
==Description==
[[File:British Government memoranda regarding Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate with respect to Transjordan, March 1921.jpg|thumb|left|British Government proposal to include Transjordan within the Palestine Mandate via what became "Article 25"]]
Article 25 of the Mandate for Palestine allowed for the exclusion of Transjordan from unspecified provisions of the Mandate. On 16 September 1922, [[Arthur Balfour|Lord Balfour]], representing the United Kingdom, reminded the Council of the League of Nations of Article 25 of the Mandate for Palestine (which had been previously approved but had not yet come into effect). He then told the council that the British government now proposed to carry out this article, as had always been intended by the League of Nations and the British government. He then presented a memorandum for approval.<ref name=LoN0>''League of Nations Official Journal'', Nov. 1922, pp. 1188–1189.</ref>
| |||