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The White Paper of 1939 [note 1] was a policy paper issued by the British government, led by Neville Chamberlain, in response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. [2] After its formal approval in the House of Commons on 23 May 1939, [ 3 ] [ note 2 ] it acted as the governing policy for Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to the 1948 British ...
Palestine, Statement with regard to British Policy Cmd. 3582 government must issue clear statements safeguarding Arab rights and regulating Jewish immigration and land purchase welcomed an investigation by an international commission of the conflicting claims to the Western Wall October 1930 Passfield White Paper
It has been suggested that he had to refuse to deal with the British to maintain his leadership of the actual rebels in Palestine. [48] Yitzhak Ben-Zvi addresses demonstration against the White Paper, Jerusalem, 18 May 1939. On 17 April, the Histadrut announced the launch of a campaign against the proposals. In the first month after the end of ...
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the British introduced the White Paper of 1939. The White Paper rejected the concept of partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states and announced that the country would be turned into an independent binational state with an Arab majority.
The White Paper of 1939 was a policy paper issued by the British government under Neville Chamberlain in response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. (It was also known as the MacDonald White Paper after Malcolm MacDonald, the British Colonial Secretary who presided over its creation.)
17 May – The British government issues the White Paper of 1939, following the failure of the London Conference and the continued Arab revolt, which abandons the idea of partitioning, sharply restricts Jewish immigration into Palestine and places severe restrictions on the rights of Jews to buy land from Arabs.
The British government has laid out its plans to reshape the country’s broadcasting landscape with a broad-ranging set of proposals, contained in a White Paper published Thursday. These include ...
The White Paper of 1939 provided for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within 10 years. [5] As explained by Malcolm MacDonald to the 1939 meeting of the Permanent Mandates Commission it was not clear at that stage what form such a state would take. [6] [a]