Editing As-Salt (section)

===British Mandate, Emirate, and independence===
During [[World War I]], Salt was [[Third Transjordan attack#Capture of Es Salt|captured]] from the Ottomans by the third battalion of the [[Jewish Legion]] of the [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force|British expeditionary corps]], and its commander, [[Eliezer Margolin]], was made military governor of Salt.<ref>[[Getzel Kressel]]. [https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/margolin-eliezer "Margolin, Eliezer"]. [[Encyclopaedia Judaica]] via encyclopedia.com. Accessed 3 May 2022.</ref><ref>[https://alh-research.tripod.com/desert_column_forum_pix/index.album/lieutenantcolonel-eliazar-margolin-leading-the-39th-royal-fusiliers-through-bet-shemen-in-israel?i=1169 Lieutenant-Colonel Eliazar Margolin leading the 39th Royal Fusiliers through Bet Shemen in Israel]. Desert Column Forum Pix. Accessed 3 May 2022.</ref>

After the war, the town was the site which [[Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel|Herbert Samuel]], British High Commissioner of Palestine, chose to make his announcement that the British favoured a [[Hejaz]]i [[Hashemites|Hashemite]] ruled entity on the East Bank of the Mandatory Palestine (current Jordan). This wish became reality in 1921 when [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah I]] became Emir of Transjordan. Salt seemed to be the city that would be chosen as the capital of the new emirate since most of the industry and commerce flowed through Salt. During this period Salt had no high schools. Even so, Abdullah picked the city as the capital of his emerging emirate but later changed his mind and moved his compound and entourage to Amman when he and the notables of Salt had a disagreement.{{dubious|I have no intention of lèse majesté, but the wording, "disagreement", reminds me of the Communist-era joke about Pravda reporting on military hostilities at the USSR-Chinese border (see talk-page). Did the Maghadan Palace spokesperson write this?|date=October 2021}} Amman at that time was a small city of only 20,000 people which experienced rapid growth.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 16,176 inhabitants in Al-Salt,{{sfn|Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics|1964|p=13}} of whom 2,157 were Christian.{{sfn|Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics|1964|pp=115–116}}