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Front cover of the white paper Pages 17–21, "British Policy in Palestine" sometimes known as the "Churchill memorandum". The Churchill White Paper of 3 June 1922 (sometimes referred to as "British Policy in Palestine") was drafted at the request of Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, partly in response to the 1921 Jaffa Riots.
June 1922 Churchill White Paper: Correspondence with the Palestine Arab Delegation and the Zionist Organization Cmd. 1700 Jews' right to immigrate but must not exceed "the economic capacity of the country at the time to absorb new arrivals."
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. 22 February – A. D. Gordon (born 1856), Russian (Ukraine)-born Zionist activist, founder of Hapoel Hatzair. 16 December – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (born 1858), Russian (Belarus)-born Jewish lexicographer and newspaper editor, the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era.
February - A delegation of Palestinian Arab leaders, led by Musa al-Husayni, informs Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office that they cannot accept the Mandate or the Balfour Declaration and demand their national independence. [14] June 3 - The Churchill White Paper, 1922 clarifies the British position regarding Mandatory Palestine.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. League of Nations – Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan Memorandum British Command Paper 1785, December 1922, containing the Mandate for Palestine and the Transjordan memorandum Whilst the Mandate for Palestine document covered both Mandatory Palestine (from 1920) and the Emirate of Transjordan ...
It was first published on 1 September 1922 in an Extraordinary Issue of the Palestine Gazette. [ 2 ] The constitution, which was published approximately two weeks after the League of Nations approval of the Mandate for Palestine , officially replaced the British military occupation of Palestine , which had been in force since the end of World ...
1924 [1] – Samuel travelled to Geneva in November 1924 to explain Britain's policy, at that point being the Churchill White Paper of 1922.The Commission used the term "twofold duty" to refer to the obligations to Jew and non-Jew in the Mandate.
Between 1916 and 1920, the British government interpreted these commitments as including Palestine in the Arab area. However, in the 1922 Churchill White Paper they argued instead that Palestine had been excluded. [b] On the basis of McMahon's assurances the Arab Revolt began on 5 June 1916.