The year 1946 was the apex of achievement for Transjordan, soon to be rebranded as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The slow but steady construction of a state, which characterised the 1920s and 1930s, had been accelerated during wartime. Unimagined levels of prosperity had flowed as a result of British procurement and trade policy in the region. Amman was unquestionably the hub of the emerging state. King Abdullah, now a senior statesman among regional leaders, real and aspirant, gave the entity prestige above its station, a position that was enhanced by formal if not quite substantive independence. The makers and shakers of San Remo could look with pride on the achievement of Transjordan, as it emerged some twenty-five years after their conference created the mandate system. Though the relative absence of truly independent institutions meant that Transjordan did not quite conform to the model end-product League of Nations mandate, it was undoubtedly its leading success. Perhaps even more than its successes at state building, Transjordan had emerged with a political community that, while far from homogeneous, shared a widespread consensus about the new state’s existence and its overall political direction. In short, Transjordan was not yet racked by the existential legitimacy problems that were to blight most emerging Arab states at the time.