P F Tinmore;
et al,
Now who is quibbling?
P F Tinmore,
et al,
Hummm,
Palestine and Transjordan were administered as two separate mandates.
(QUESTION)
Can you point me to the Mandate for Trans-Jordan?
Most Respectfully,
R
A mincing of words.
The territory was officially under the British Mandate for Palestine
but had a fully autonomous governing system from Mandatory Palestine.
Transjordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were the same "mandate" but administered separately.
(COMMENT)
Well, I did not defer to "wikipedia" in search of an answer that could be manipulated into something that I already explained in Postings #71, #95 and #104; as well as, Posting #76 of the The '67 Borders Discussion as to the why.
The first misinterpretation is the claim you (and Sherry) make is that "it was not part of the Mandate of Palestine." It most certainly was part of the Mandate; clearly.
The second misinterpretation is the claim that it was "administered separately" from the Mandate. It was not; it was administered in accordance with Articles 2 and 25 of the Mandate, pursuant to pre-Mandate arrangements made and agreed upon with the HRH Amir Faisal on 3 January 1919, on behalf of the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz.
To suggest that the Emirate was autonomous is not the same as saying it was not under Mandate. The same troops were stationed in the Emirate as were stationed West of the Jordan River. The borders were set, through Arab agreement, by the same commission, and the bills were generally paid by the same government as paid for the administration of West of the Jordan River (financial dependence).
To say that between 1922 and 1946
(during the period TransJordan was known as the Emirate of Transjordan) it was administered separately is disingenuous. It would be fair to say that it was administered differently; as I said previously, do to promises made, even before the Treaty of Sevres was concluded, it was agreed that the Emirate would not be considered part of the land apportionment for the Jewish National Home. So those aspects of the Mandate for Palestine were not were not applied to the Administration. However, the agreement between the made Arab Leadership on behalf of the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz
(later to be known as Saudi Arabia) did agree to "encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale, and as quickly as possible to settle Jewish immigrants."
(Or as you say, the "foreigns" were invited by the Arab Leadership.) All this was done under the Mandate for Palestine as the tool to the agreement made by the Arab Leadership.
To be administered differently under the same tool, is not the same as being administered separately under a different tool --- as you and Sherry claimed. It is like using a claw hammer. Same tool; but one side of the head puts the nail in, the other side pulls the nail out --- but it is the same tool; by the same user, for ultimately the same job.
(No quibbling with the facts required!)
Most Respectfully,
R
