Notes and papers on Palestine, including: extract from the New Judaea on partition proposals; copy of "Unity or Partition!" by Ascher Saphir; memorandum submitted by the Arab Higher Committee to the Permanent Mandates Commission and Secretary of State for the Colonies [William Ormsby-Gore, later 4th Lord Harlech]; issue of the National Message, journal of the British-Israel-World Federation; memorandum from the New Zionist Organization on the case against partition; issues of Palestine, with a supplement giving the text of the speech by Chaim Weizmann [President, World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine] to the Zionist Congress at Zurich [Switzerland] (August 1937) on the future of the Jewish nation; print of a speech by Judah Magnes [President, Hebrew University, Jerusalem] to the Council of the Jewish Agency, Zurich (August 1937) on establishing a bi-national state without partition; leaflet on the Jewish State Party; copy of "Jewish State or Ghetto" by J M Machover, on the dangers of partition; memoranda on subjects including the lack of room in a partitioned Palestine for immigration and further expansion, the potential fertility of the Negeb area of Palestine [later part of Israel], and the advantages of using it as a Jewish colony.Other subjects include: the collapse of the administration in Palestine, and suggested appointment of an interim High Commissioner; Arab opposition, and terrorism, centred in Damascus [Syria].Also includes: letter from Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; press cuttings from the Manchester Guardian on the impracticalities of partition and from the Times with a letter by Cyril Asquith on British wartime pledges to the Arabs and Jews.