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HERBERT LOUIS SAMUEL, FIRST VISCOUNT SAMUEL (1870-1963)
Wall Proclamation Poster. [Jerusalem: 1920]. Large poster (485 x 565mm), British royal coat-of-arms top-centre, text in two columns printed in Hebrew. (Light vertical creasing to centre, minor marginal creasing, very small ink spot to upper left-hand margin.) Sold with an accompanying photograph of Samuel (197 x 255mm), signed Bendov and with Hebrew blindstamp. (Faint oxidisation at margins, a few tiny spots of abrasion mostly at margins, but with one area over left eyebrow.
PROCLAMATION BY PALESTINE'S FIRST BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER. When the British defeated the Ottomans in Palestine in 1918, the British administered the area under what was known as the Occupied Enemy Territory Authority (OETA). This Authority was effectively martial law, but signalled its failings with the Nebi Musa disturbances of April 1920. In response, Lloyd George appointed Sir Herbert Samuel - the first practising Jew to serve in the British cabinet - to turn OETA over into a civil authority run along crown colony lines. Despite no formal peace treaty between Britain and Turkey, and the failure of the newly-created League of Nations to recognise British rule of Palestine, Samuel arrived in Palestine at the end of June 1920 invested with the power to run a civilian administration. A supporter of Zionism, Samuel backed the Balfour Declaration, and his appointment was met with acclaim by Jews in Palestine. Upon his arrival, intelligence reports suggested that members of the Arab population might stage an attempt on Samuel's life, and consequently he was transported to Jerusalem in an armoured train. Because the Americans were pushing for Palestine to be given Mandatory status, Samuel was officially titled High Commissioner, rather than Governor, although the Colonial Office assumed direct responsibility and organised the territory exactly along traditional British colonial lines. Hence the photograph in this lot depicts Samuel wearing the official British pro-consul's white uniform. The proclamation opens with words on behalf of King George V: 'The League of Nations granted my Kingdom the right to ... ensure the development, in peace, of Eretz Israel, which was prevented for so many years…' It goes on to detail Samuel's plans to develop the country and enhance the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the country, while maintaining balanced relationships between the Jewish Yishuv and the Muslim and Christian population.
Wall Proclamation Poster. [Jerusalem: 1920]. Large poster (485 x 565mm), British royal coat-of-arms top-centre, text in two columns printed in Hebrew. (Light vertical creasing to centre, minor marginal creasing, very small ink spot to upper left-hand margin.) Sold with an accompanying photograph of Samuel (197 x 255mm), signed Bendov and with Hebrew blindstamp. (Faint oxidisation at margins, a few tiny spots of abrasion mostly at margins, but with one area over left eyebrow.
PROCLAMATION BY PALESTINE'S FIRST BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER. When the British defeated the Ottomans in Palestine in 1918, the British administered the area under what was known as the Occupied Enemy Territory Authority (OETA). This Authority was effectively martial law, but signalled its failings with the Nebi Musa disturbances of April 1920. In response, Lloyd George appointed Sir Herbert Samuel - the first practising Jew to serve in the British cabinet - to turn OETA over into a civil authority run along crown colony lines. Despite no formal peace treaty between Britain and Turkey, and the failure of the newly-created League of Nations to recognise British rule of Palestine, Samuel arrived in Palestine at the end of June 1920 invested with the power to run a civilian administration. A supporter of Zionism, Samuel backed the Balfour Declaration, and his appointment was met with acclaim by Jews in Palestine. Upon his arrival, intelligence reports suggested that members of the Arab population might stage an attempt on Samuel's life, and consequently he was transported to Jerusalem in an armoured train. Because the Americans were pushing for Palestine to be given Mandatory status, Samuel was officially titled High Commissioner, rather than Governor, although the Colonial Office assumed direct responsibility and organised the territory exactly along traditional British colonial lines. Hence the photograph in this lot depicts Samuel wearing the official British pro-consul's white uniform. The proclamation opens with words on behalf of King George V: 'The League of Nations granted my Kingdom the right to ... ensure the development, in peace, of Eretz Israel, which was prevented for so many years…' It goes on to detail Samuel's plans to develop the country and enhance the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in the country, while maintaining balanced relationships between the Jewish Yishuv and the Muslim and Christian population.