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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."
Events in the year 1922 in the British Mandate of Palestine. ... The Churchill White Paper is published endorsing the Balfour Declaration but weakening the plans for ...
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.
The White Paper of 1939 [note 1] was a policy paper issued by the British government, led by Neville Chamberlain, in response to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. [2] After its formal approval in the House of Commons on 23 May 1939, [ 3 ] [ note 2 ] it acted as the governing policy for Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to the 1948 British ...
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 ...
Referring to his 1922 White Paper, Churchill later wrote that "there is nothing in it to prohibit the ultimate establishment of a Jewish State." [ 195 ] And in private, many British officials agreed with the Zionists' interpretation that a state would be established when a Jewish majority was achieved.
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.