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PALESTINE -- PALESTINE ROYAL COMMISSION
PALESTINE -- PALESTINE ROYAL COMMISSION [Peel Commission] Report . [Cmd. 5479.] London: HMSO, 1937. [With:] -- Palestine. Statement of Policy by his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom . [Cmd. 5513.] London: HMSO, 1937. 2 volumes, 8° (248 x 155mm). 404pp and 10 maps, and 4pp. (The first with staples rusting.) Original blue printed wrappers, and bifolium (extremities lightly rubbed, the first with slight uneven fading on lower cover, the second lightly dogearred). THE PEEL REPORT ON THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE. The Royal Commission was initiated in response to the Arab Revolt which started in April 1936. A catalyst for this was the increased Jewish immigration after 1933 as German Jews sought escape from Nazi persecution. Headed by William Peel, 1st Earl Peel, the Royal Commission was 'the most high-powered of the various commissions of enquiry which had visited Palestine, and its report, published in July 1937, was a model of insight, precision and lucidity. Seldom, if ever, has an intricate political problem been so clearly analysed by men who had little previous knowledge of the issues' (Lacquer). The second item, the White Paper on Partition, supports Peel's findings, stating that his scheme for partition represents 'the best and most helpful solution of the deadlock between Arab and Jew'. Laquer, A History of Zionism (1989), p. 514. 'The Significance of the Peel Report lay first in its exceptionally clearheaded exposition of the Palestine problem; secondly ... for the first time under the British Mandate, the establishment of a sovereign Jewish State was placed on the political agenda; thirdly in its revelation of severe internal differences among the Zionists over the issue of Partition and finally in its initiation of the process whereby ... British rule in Palestine came to an end' (Wasserstein, Enc. Zionism & Israel ).