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The National Government of Moab was the whimsical name given to the authority of Sir Alec Kirkbride over the town of Kerak in what would become Transjordan, but what was then no man's land after the collapse of the Syrian government under Faisal. Sir Herbert Samuel, the first High Commissioner requested permission from the of Lord Curzon to impose some order in the neighboring area of the Hauran.


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  • Fromkin, David (1989). A Peace to End All Peace. Henry Holt. ISBN 0805068848. 
  • Sachar, Howard M. (1969). The Emergence of the Middle East: 1914-1924. Knopf. ASIN B0006CPB1A. 
  • Sykes, Christopher (1965). Crossroads to Israel'. World Publishing Company. ISBN.  [out of print]
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