British Mandate

But when Allen by marched into Jerusalem, it soon became apparent that yet a third undertaking, to the French, was the one to be kept. Under the terms of the secret Sykes—Picot Agreement, the French were basically to get the land to the north; Syria and Lebanon, and the British the bottom portion.

A conference in Pans of the major powers ratified this and later at the League of Nations, Britain was given mandatory powers over Palestine and what was later to become Jordan.

At Paris. American President. Woodrow Wilson, foreshadowed Carter by making high sounding, but unfulfilled, noises about the wished of the indigenous inhabitants being paramount over major powers' interests.