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Palestine (Mac-Donald White Paper) |
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Malcolm MacDonald |
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London |
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His Majesty's Stationery Office |
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1939 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Physical
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12 p., quarto, 243:153 mm., usual browning. |
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Only edition. |
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Detailed
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Statement of policy presented by theSecretary of State to Parliment by Command of His Majesty May 1939. |
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The failure of the St. James' Conference led to the publication of the Malcolm MacDonald White Paper (May 1939). Since the Royal Commission's partition proposal had "been found to be impracticable," the British government had devised "an alternate policy." In order to remove any doubts, the statement continued, "His Majesty's Government now declares unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State." Moreover, they would indeed regard it as "contrary to their obligations to the Arabs under the Mandate ..." The government was charged with the development of self-governing institutions and regarded it as "contrary to the spirit of the Mandate" to keep the Palestinian population for ever under a Mandatory regime. It announced that "The objective of His Majesty's Government is the establishment within ten years of an independent Palestine State".
The White Paper was regarded by the Zionist movement and many outside it as a final betrayal of Britain's obligations to the Jewish people under the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate. The announcement of this policy at the outset of the Jewish mass flight from Europe became the starting point for the active struggle of the yishuv against the Mandatory regime in Palestine.
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