1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill

1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill

In his later years, he liked to boast that in 1921 he created the British mandate of Trans-Jordan, the incarnation of what still is the kingdom of Jordan, “with the stroke of a pen, one Sunday afternoon in Cairo.”

Source: “Borderlines and Borderlands,” (pg 189) edited by Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen