During the period the British in neighbouring Mandatory Palestine chose to avoid "any definite connection between it and Palestine", and the British "Sherifian policy" for the area began to be developed.[6] The Zionist Organization tried and failed to have the area added to Mandatory Palestine during this period; the efforts of the High Commissioner for Palestine and Zionist, Herbert Samuel, were overruled by the British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon.[7][8][9][10]