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Lot #    18254
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 12:07:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Palestine Partition Commission Report
Author    [Zionism - Maps] Sir John Woodhead
City    London
Publisher    His Majesty's Stationery Office
Publication Date    1938
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 310 pp. [8] maps plus title wrappers, 245:154 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound as published.
          
Detailed
Description		    In 1938 the British government appointed the Palestine Partition Commission (generally known as the Woodhead Commission, after its chairman Sir John Woodhead) "to recommend boundaries for the proposed Arab and Jewish areas and the British enclaves that would: (a) afford a reasonable prospect of the eventual establishment... of self-supporting Arab and Jewish states; (b) necessitate the inclusion of the fewest possible Arabs and Arab enterprises in the Jewish area and vice versa; and (c) enable the British government to carry out its 'Mandatory responsibilities.'" The commission, whose report was published in October 1938, found that the Peel Commission's scheme (Plan A) was impracticable. One member favored Plan B, which would have excluded Galilee and a small area in the south from the Jewish state as proposed in Plan A; two others preferred Plan C, which provided for small Jewish and Arab states, with Galilee, a Jerusalem enclave, and the Negev under British mandate; and a fourth rejected all three plans. The commission, therefore, was unable to recommend boundaries that would meet its terms of reference, and the British government came to the conclusion that partition was impracticable.
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
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Other:    Maps
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica