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SIR WALTER SHAW (1863-1937)
Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August, 1929. [Cmd. 3530.] London: HMSO, 1930. 8° (243 x 155mm). 202pp., 4 folding maps, two of which colour-printed, 4 colour-printed graphs. (Map 4 with a small tear but without loss, first 8pp. with dogearing, faint marginal spotting to map 1.) Original blue printed wrappers (faint scattered spotting to extremities of wrappers, corners faintly dogeared, upper corner of inside front wrapper reinforced with tape, staples rusting).
THE SHAW COMMISSION REPORT. 1929 became a watershed year in the degeneration of the relationship between the Jewish and Arab communities of Mandatory Palestine. In August of that year, long-running religious tensions between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem came to a head. Arab riots in Jerusalem spread to Hebron and Safed, leading to the deaths of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs, accompanied by destruction of property. The British government, concerned by these developments, created the Shaw Commission of Enquiry to investigate the reasons behind this outbreak of violence. The commission published the present report in March 1930 which called for a final settlement of the rights and claims by the different religious parties in regard to the Western Wall. In order to do this, the British, established a further commission in consultation with the League of Nations (see lot 384), which set out ownership of the Wall and the religious observances permitted there. Khalidi & Khadduri 1668.
Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August, 1929. [Cmd. 3530.] London: HMSO, 1930. 8° (243 x 155mm). 202pp., 4 folding maps, two of which colour-printed, 4 colour-printed graphs. (Map 4 with a small tear but without loss, first 8pp. with dogearing, faint marginal spotting to map 1.) Original blue printed wrappers (faint scattered spotting to extremities of wrappers, corners faintly dogeared, upper corner of inside front wrapper reinforced with tape, staples rusting).
THE SHAW COMMISSION REPORT. 1929 became a watershed year in the degeneration of the relationship between the Jewish and Arab communities of Mandatory Palestine. In August of that year, long-running religious tensions between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem came to a head. Arab riots in Jerusalem spread to Hebron and Safed, leading to the deaths of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs, accompanied by destruction of property. The British government, concerned by these developments, created the Shaw Commission of Enquiry to investigate the reasons behind this outbreak of violence. The commission published the present report in March 1930 which called for a final settlement of the rights and claims by the different religious parties in regard to the Western Wall. In order to do this, the British, established a further commission in consultation with the League of Nations (see lot 384), which set out ownership of the Wall and the religious observances permitted there. Khalidi & Khadduri 1668.
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