4 St. 59 Min, 31 Okt 1930 Jahr - 1930 Passfield White Paper

Beschreibung:

Issued on October 21, 1930, following the release of the Shaw Commission findings on the cause of the Arab riots of 1929. The document built off the findings of the Hope-Simpson Report which investigated the possibilities for future immigration to Palestine. The paper stated that because of the shortage of arable land, Jewish settlement would be permitted only under stringent government supervision. On February 13, 1931, British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald sent a letter to Chaim Weizmann in an attempt to calm tensions by slightly easing these provisions.