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==Background==
[[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"]]▼
The [[Mandatory 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, and the subsequent [[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.com/books?id=ATQQ0FMS1FQC&pg=PA348 ''The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951''], p. 348. William Roger Louis, Clarendon Press, 1984</ref>
===Article 25===
▲[[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>
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