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Political files: Palestine, 1928-07 - 1940-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/46

Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence on the Royal Commission investigating the partition of Palestine, with correspondents including: Mrs Edgar Dugdale [Blanche Dugdale]; Sir [Arthur] Henry McMahon; 1st Lord Peel [Chairman of the Palestine Royal Commission]; William Ormsby-Gore [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] (2); John Martin, Secretary of the Palestine Royal Commission; Prince Abdullah, Emir of Transjordan [later King Abdullah of Jordan]; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence].

Papers include: notes on a conversation between LSA and the Palestine Royal Commission; print of LSA's article "The Future in Palestine" (1929); map of Palestine showing Jewish land ownership; statements of British policy and the proposed new constitution for Palestine; print of correspondence between Sir [Arthur] Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt, and the Sherif Hussein of Mecca (1915-16) with related documents from the Jewish Agency for Palestine; print of Palestine Land Transfers Regulations; notes by Leonard Stein [Honorary Legal Adviser, Jewish Agency for Palestine] on the Palestine conferences; documents relating to the Balfour Declaration, including a pamphlet on its origins by Mrs Edgar Dugdale; prints of papers giving the Jewish case against partition; statement by Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine, to the Palestine Royal Commission; draft speech notes by LSA on Palestine; copies of letters from LSA to 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Henry Mond], Jan Smuts, [? Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; account of a conversation between LSA, Josiah Wedgwood, Blanche Dugdale and others on bringing Palestine within the Commonwealth.

Dates

  • Creation: 1928-07 - 1940-03

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

2 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Box 157

Finding aid date

2003-10-21 16:47:20.310000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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