ABSTRACT
Anglo-Saxon passed the concession on to the Turkish Petroleum Company in which it was a partner, and which represented its interests in the former Ottoman Empire. The chief British representative's contention that they themselves considered the concession as worthless is likely to be the full truth. Any conciliatoriness over the Moab concession would have encouraged, and perhaps legally strengthened, other claimants, all American—a development which the British government and British oil interests were equally eager to stifle. "Four shillings per ton of crude oil," or a different formula of similar significance, goes back to before the war as an equitable profit to local governments from current production. Major Smallwood must have concluded his agreement with the "National Government" at some date between September 1920 when it was set up, and March 1921 when the establishment of the amir Abdallah in Amman caused its disappearance.
