ABSTRACT
The upshot was that on 21 August 1920, the high commissioner for Palestine, Sir Herbert Samuel, addressed a meeting of notables at Salt, the Transjordanian town nearest to Jerusalem across what was already known as Allenby Bridge. Transjordan had gained access to the sea. Law and order had been established with a minimum of expenditure and bureaucratic proliferation. Economic growth had remained slow at least until the boost of the war years, and living standards, health, and education remained primitive compared to Arab Palestine, but growth had occurred. The disturbances in Palestine between 1936 and 1939 concerned Sharif Abdallah and the amirate in more ways than one. Abdallah had never been an out-and-out fanatic about the Zionist endeavour, and not merely because fanaticism was not one of his personal traits. The Husayni clan had many enemies in Palestine, just as Abdallah had his admirers and clients there.
