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PALESTINE PARTITION COMMISSION -- SIR JOHN WOODHEAD
Report. [Cmd. 5854.] London: HMSO, 1938. 8° (245 x 154mm). 310pp, 13 maps, all but two colour-printed and one folding. (Dogearing to first 12pp., map no. 7 lightly creased with a few others at end faintly creased.) Original blue printed wrappers (extremities rubbed, faint traces of minor repairs to spine, light dogearing, faint stain on lower wrapper). Provenance: neat, but illegible, contemporary ink inscription on title.
When the Peel Commission presented its findings in 1937 (see lot 392), stating that the Mandate had become unworkable, and outlined the major partition boundaries to be implemented, Chamberlain's government took fright at the prospect of dismantling the Mandate system, and in a secret vote on 8 December 1937, the cabinet rejected its findings. The British government then commissioned the Woodhead Commission, ostensibly to report on how partition might be implemented practically, but in reality to bury the Peel Commission proposals. The present report dismissed partition on the grounds that an independent Arab state would not be financially self-supporting. Khalidi & Khadduri 1656.
Report. [Cmd. 5854.] London: HMSO, 1938. 8° (245 x 154mm). 310pp, 13 maps, all but two colour-printed and one folding. (Dogearing to first 12pp., map no. 7 lightly creased with a few others at end faintly creased.) Original blue printed wrappers (extremities rubbed, faint traces of minor repairs to spine, light dogearing, faint stain on lower wrapper). Provenance: neat, but illegible, contemporary ink inscription on title.
When the Peel Commission presented its findings in 1937 (see lot 392), stating that the Mandate had become unworkable, and outlined the major partition boundaries to be implemented, Chamberlain's government took fright at the prospect of dismantling the Mandate system, and in a secret vote on 8 December 1937, the cabinet rejected its findings. The British government then commissioned the Woodhead Commission, ostensibly to report on how partition might be implemented practically, but in reality to bury the Peel Commission proposals. The present report dismissed partition on the grounds that an independent Arab state would not be financially self-supporting. Khalidi & Khadduri 1656.
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