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Public and Political: General: Palestine: Correspondence., 19 Feb 1937 - 31 Dec 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/315

Scope and Contents

Correspondents on Palestine include: Josiah Wedgwood on the drawbacks of partition (2); Herbert Henson, Bishop of Durham, on his sympathy for the persecution of the Polish Jews; 1st Lord Samuel [former High Commissioner in Palestine] on an appeal for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the limits of Jewish immigration and poor prospects for agreement between the Arab and Jewish sides (2); Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso], asking WSC to meet Chaim Weizmann [President, World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine] (2); Clifford Norton [Private Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on the Foreign Office view of mediation in Palestine; Chaim Weizmann [to WSC, Leo Amery and Sir John Shuckburgh, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on subjects including his attitude to partition, WSC's opposition to incorporating southern Palestine into the Arab State, the minimum requirements for the Jewish State, terrorism, Government indecision and their wavering on partition (5); Sir Robert Waley Cohen on the report of the Royal Commission on Palestine and alternatives to partition; Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury] on WSC's intervention in the Palestine debate, his article [? "Partition Perils in Palestine"] and whether she should lecture in the United States (2); William Ormsby-Gore [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech]; Sir Hugh Tudor [former Inspector General of Police and Prisons, Temporary Air Vice-Marshal, and General Officer Commanding in Palestine] on partition.Also includes: draft statement by Josiah Wedgwood for WSC on the persecution of the Jews in Poland; proposed resolution of the British Section of the World Jewish Congress on the Polish Jews; notes and copies of correspondence by WSC and Violet Pearman [Secretary to WSC] to individuals listed above and also to others including King Haakon VII of Norway.

Dates

  • Creation: 19 Feb 1937 - 31 Dec 1937

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 bound file (60 folios))

Language of Materials

English

Cultural context

Repository Details

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