![PALESTINE -- League of Nations. Mandate for Palestine, together with a note by the Secretary-General relating to its application to the territory known as Trans-Jordan. [Cmd. 1785.] London: HMSO, 1922. 8° (246 x 152mm). 12pp, verso of final leaf blank. (Upper wrapper slightly dust soiled, with minor crease to lower corner.) Self-wrappers, stapled as issued (staples slightly rusty). Provenance: shadow of filing note in red pencil to upper margin front wrapper.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08952_0127_000(palestine_--_league_of_nations_mandate_for_palestine_together_with_a_n075448).jpg?w=1)
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PALESTINE -- League of Nations. Mandate for Palestine, together with a note by the Secretary-General relating to its application to the territory known as Trans-Jordan. [Cmd. 1785.] London: HMSO, 1922. 8° (246 x 152mm). 12pp, verso of final leaf blank. (Upper wrapper slightly dust soiled, with minor crease to lower corner.) Self-wrappers, stapled as issued (staples slightly rusty). Provenance: shadow of filing note in red pencil to upper margin front wrapper.
THE BRITISH MANDATE FOR PALESTINE IS EXTENDED TO COVER TRANS-JORDAN, but specifically removes the provisions intended to allow for the establishment of a 'Jewish National Home'. Having rejected Herbert Samuel's request in 1920 to extend the frontier of the Palestine Mandate beyond the river Jordan, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon followed a policy to encourage self-government in Trans-Jordan. The White Paper described above, however allowed for the extension of the Mandate, but with specific exclusions which were contrary to the Zionist cause.
'Lord Balfour reminded his colleagues that Article 25 of the mandate for Palestine as approved by the Council in London on July 24th, 1922, provides that the territories in Palestine which lie east of the Jordan should be under a somewhat different regime from the rest of Palestine In pursuance of the policy, embodied in Article 25, Lord Balfour invited the Council to pass a series of resolutions which modified the mandate as regards those territories. The object of these resolutions was to withdraw from Trans-Jordania the special provisions which were intended to provide a national home for the Jews west of the Jordan' (League of Nations Official Journal, November 1922, pp188-1189).
THE BRITISH MANDATE FOR PALESTINE IS EXTENDED TO COVER TRANS-JORDAN, but specifically removes the provisions intended to allow for the establishment of a 'Jewish National Home'. Having rejected Herbert Samuel's request in 1920 to extend the frontier of the Palestine Mandate beyond the river Jordan, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon followed a policy to encourage self-government in Trans-Jordan. The White Paper described above, however allowed for the extension of the Mandate, but with specific exclusions which were contrary to the Zionist cause.
'Lord Balfour reminded his colleagues that Article 25 of the mandate for Palestine as approved by the Council in London on July 24th, 1922, provides that the territories in Palestine which lie east of the Jordan should be under a somewhat different regime from the rest of Palestine In pursuance of the policy, embodied in Article 25, Lord Balfour invited the Council to pass a series of resolutions which modified the mandate as regards those territories. The object of these resolutions was to withdraw from Trans-Jordania the special provisions which were intended to provide a national home for the Jews west of the Jordan' (League of Nations Official Journal, November 1922, pp188-1189).