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Palestine Royal Commission Report (1937)

The Peel Commission's report, which recommended partition.

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  • Palestine (region) Primary record 1

    Peel's estimate for the Mandate's early years; its other figure, "half million Arabs" in 1919, is lower.

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  1. 1937 Palestine Royal Commission Report (1937)
  2. 1937 Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission) authored Palestine Royal Commission Report (1937)
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  1. Palestine Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5479), His Majesty's Stationery Office, via UN Question of Palestine archive, 1937. Primary record
    of the population as estimated in rgz, 589,000 were Moslems, 83,000 Jews, and 71,000 Christians.
    To ascertain the underlying causes of the disturbances which broke out in Palestine in the middle of April
    We can see none in any other plan.
    there should be a transfer of land and, as far as possible, an exchange of population
  2. British White Paper on Palestine, 1939, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 1939. Primary record
    The Royal Commission and previous commissions of Enquiry have drawn attention to the ambiguity of certain expressions in the Mandate
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