Editing Emirate of Transjordan (section)

===1928 treaty===
Transfer of most administrative functions occurred in 1928, including the creation of the post of High Commissioner for Transjordan.{{efn|Article 1 of the February 1928 agreement stated: "His Highness the Amir agrees that His Britannic Majesty shall be represented in Trans-Jordan by a British Resident acting on behalf of the High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan."<ref>Agreement between his Britannic Majesty and His Highness the Amir of Trans-Jordan, February 1928</ref>}} The status of the mandate was not altered by the agreement between the United Kingdom and the Emirate concluded on 20 February 1928.<ref>See League of Nations, Official Journal, 1928, p. 1574</ref> It recognised the existence of an independent government in Transjordan and defined and limited its powers. The ratifications were exchanged on 31 October 1929."{{efn|Bentwich wrote: "An agreement was made in February 1928, between His Britannic Majesty and the Emir of Transjordan, varying in important respects the execution of the Mandate for Transjordan which was conferred with the Mandate for Palestine in 1922. There was, indeed, no separate Mandate for Transjordan; but by a resolution of the Council of the League of Nations, passed in September 1922, at the suggestion of the British Government, certain provisions of the Mandate for Palestine were, in accordance with Article 25 of that Mandate, declared not applicable in the territory lying east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea. It was further provided in the application of the Mandate to Transjordan that the action which in Palestine is taken by the Administration of Palestine will be taken by the Administration of Transjordan under the general supervision of the Mandatory. A declaration by the British Government was approved to the effect that His Majesty's Government accepts full responsibility as Mandatory for Transjordan, and undertakes that such provision as may be made for the administration of that territory shall be in no way inconsistent with those provisions of the Mandate which are not declared inapplicable by the resolution."{{sfn|Bentwich|1929|p=212-213}}}}<ref>See 1919 Foreign Relations, vol. XIII, Paris Peace Conference (1947), p. 100</ref>

Transjordan remained under British control until the first-Transjordanian treaty was concluded in 1928. Transjordan became nominally independent, although the British still maintained a military presence and control of foreign affairs and retained some financial control over the Emirate. This failed to respond to Transjordanian demands for a fully sovereign and independent state, a failure that led to widespread disaffection with the treaty among Transjordanians, prompting them to seek a national conference (25 July 1928), the first of its kind, to examine the articles of the treaty and adopt a plan of political action.<ref name="AV">Avi Shlaim, Lion of Jordan (2007) p 17.</ref>

According to the [[U.S. State Department]] ''Digest of International Law'', the status of the mandate was not altered by the agreement between the United Kingdom and the Emirate concluded on 20 February 1928<ref>League of Nations, Official Journal, 1928, p. 1574</ref> which recognized the existence of an independent government in Transjordan and defined and limited its powers. The ratifications were exchanged on 31 October 1929."<ref>1919 Foreign Relations of the United States, vol. XIII, Paris Peace Conference (1947), p. 100. For a summary of the Agreement of 20 February 1928, between the United Kingdom and the Emir of Transjordan, see Bentwich, "The Mandate for Transjordan", X Brit. Yb. Int'l L. (1929) 212.</ref><ref>Marjorie M. Whiteman, Digest of International Law, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963) 631</ref>