![ISRAEL -- 'THE WHITE PAPER' -- [White Paper Cmd 6019.] Palestine Statement of Policy.. London: HMSO, 1939. 8° (243 x 150mm). 12pp. Stapled self-wrappers (lightly soiled, small split to tail). Provenance: ?unnamed government department (stamp 'Last copy' to upper wrapper).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_07558_0273_000(israel_--_the_white_paper_--_white_paper_cmd_6019_palestine_statement064104).jpg?w=1)
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ISRAEL -- 'THE WHITE PAPER' -- [White Paper Cmd 6019.] Palestine Statement of Policy.. London: HMSO, 1939. 8° (243 x 150mm). 12pp. Stapled self-wrappers (lightly soiled, small split to tail). Provenance: ?unnamed government department (stamp 'Last copy' to upper wrapper).
ONE OF ONLY 1500 COPIES OF THE WHITE PAPER PROPOSING AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE WITH POWER-SHARING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ARAB AND JEW, RESTRICTING JEWISH IMMIGRATION AND CONTROLLING SALE OF LAND TO JEWS. Increasing Jewish immigration into Palestine was one of several factors that ignited the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. The rise of Nazi Germany and the passing of the 1936 Nuremberg Laws stripping 500,000 German Jews of their citizenship led to even greater migration pressure. By 1939, having secured Jewish co-operation in the suppression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, and with the realization that war with Germany and Italy was not far off, Britain resolved to secure alliances with other Arab states. As the Palestinian Arab leader Mohammad Amin al-Husayni and his associates had received funding from Fascist Italy, the British were keen stop the Italians extending their sphere of influence in the region. In February 1939, a conference in London to negotiate an agreement on the partition of Palestine dissolved without agreement. Independently, the British had already decided on a course of action, appeasing Arab concerns by restricting Jewish immigration just when huge numbers of Jews were trying to flee the Nazi regime. This White Paper fuelled Jewish resentment, leading to Irgun attacks on British-controlled strategic infrastructure and the creation of the Stern Gang. The provisions of this White Paper were immediately lifted upon the Declaration of the Independent State of Israel (see lot 274).
ONE OF ONLY 1500 COPIES OF THE WHITE PAPER PROPOSING AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE WITH POWER-SHARING AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ARAB AND JEW, RESTRICTING JEWISH IMMIGRATION AND CONTROLLING SALE OF LAND TO JEWS. Increasing Jewish immigration into Palestine was one of several factors that ignited the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. The rise of Nazi Germany and the passing of the 1936 Nuremberg Laws stripping 500,000 German Jews of their citizenship led to even greater migration pressure. By 1939, having secured Jewish co-operation in the suppression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, and with the realization that war with Germany and Italy was not far off, Britain resolved to secure alliances with other Arab states. As the Palestinian Arab leader Mohammad Amin al-Husayni and his associates had received funding from Fascist Italy, the British were keen stop the Italians extending their sphere of influence in the region. In February 1939, a conference in London to negotiate an agreement on the partition of Palestine dissolved without agreement. Independently, the British had already decided on a course of action, appeasing Arab concerns by restricting Jewish immigration just when huge numbers of Jews were trying to flee the Nazi regime. This White Paper fuelled Jewish resentment, leading to Irgun attacks on British-controlled strategic infrastructure and the creation of the Stern Gang. The provisions of this White Paper were immediately lifted upon the Declaration of the Independent State of Israel (see lot 274).