SECTION 2. PROPOSALS BY INDIVIDUAL NON - JEWS
( 1 ) Frankfurter to Wise, 18 October 1938, op. cit.
( 2 ) Zaha B. Bustami, American Foreign Policy and Question of Palestine 1856-1939, (Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1989), p.438.
( 3 ) Leo V. Kanawada, Jr, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Diplomacy and American Catholics, Italians, and Jews, (Ann Arbor, 1982), p.116.
( 4 ) Bustami, op. cit., fn.179.
( 5 ) Telegram, McIntyre to Wise, 12 October 1938, (American Jewish Historical Society, P-134 Stephen S. Wise papers, box 181, folder "Roosevelt F. D.").
( 6 ) Lindsay to Oliphant, 3 November 1938, (PRO FO 371/21883 E6606/10/31).
( 7 ) Bustami, op. cit., p.439 fn.182.
( 8 ) Memorandum, Adolf Berle, Jr, 1 November 1938, (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library).
( 9 ) Lindsay to Oliphant, 3 November 1938, op. cit.
( 10) Minutes, Baggalay, Foreign Office London, 10 November 1938, (PRO FO 371/21883 E6606/10/31).
( 11) Handwritten note, 10 November 1938, (PRO FO 371/21883 E6606/10/31).
( 12) Oliphant to Lindsay, 11 November 1938, (PRO FO 371/21883 E6606/10/31).
( 13) Kanawada, op. cit. pp.117-18.
( 14) Bustami, op. cit., p.440 fn.183.
( 15) Ibid., pp.440-41.
( 16) Cohen to Frankfurter, 21 November 1938, (Library of Congress, Frankfurter papers, box 45).
( 17) Ibid.
( 18) Sumner Welles to Roosevelt, 22 December 1938, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, vol.12, (New York, [n.d.]), (henceforth FDR), p.348.
( 19) British Memorandum, 20 December 1938, FDR, pp.349-50.
( 20) Brandeis to Roosevelt, 21 December 1938, & Press Release, 20 December 1938, FDR, pp.346-47.
( 21) Roosevelt to Brandeis, 27 December 1938, FDR, p.356.
( 22) Brandeis to Roosevelt, 28 December 1938, FDR, p.358.
( 23) Medoff, Zionism and the Arabs, op. cit., p.86.
( 24) Ibid.
( 25) Goldman to Ben-Gurion, 6 April 1939, pp.1-2, (BGA).
( 26) Goldman to Weizmann, 20 June 1939, p.1, (WA).
( 27) Cohen to Frankfurter, 21 November 1938, op. cit.
( 28) Peter Grose, Israel in the Mind of America, (New York, 1983), pp.138-39.
( 29) Note of Conversation between Roosevelt and Weizmann, 8 February 1940, p.2, (WA).
( 30) Grose, Israel in the Mind of America, op. cit., p.139.
( 31) Selig Adler, "Franklin D. Roosevelt and Zionism - The Wartime Record", Judaism, (New York), Issue 83, vol.21, no.3, Summer 1972, p.269.
( 32) Morganthau Presidential Diary, 3 December 1942, (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library) ; John Morton Blum, Roosevelt and Morgenthau. From the Morgenthau Diaries, (Boston, 1970), pp.519-20.
( 33) Morganthau Presidential Diary, 3 December 1942, op. cit.
( 34) William D. Hassett, Off the Record with F.D.R. 1942 - 1945, (New Jersey, 1958), p.209.
( 35) The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. 1943 - 1946, ed. Thomas M. Campbell and George C. Herring, (New York, 1975), p.170.
( 36) Selig Adler et al., America and the Holy Land, A colloquium, (Jerusalem, 1972), p.12.
( 37) Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson, The Problems of Lasting Peace, (New York, 1943), pp.235-36.
( 38) Remarks over Columbia Broadcasting System to the Emergency Conference to Save the Jews of Europe, 25 July 1943, p.2, (HH PPS - Jews - Bible 2773) ; "President Pledges Aid to Save Jews", The New York Times, 26 July 1943, p.19.
( 39) Calendar, 6 August 1943, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar [via internet]).
( 40) Levinthal to Arthur, 6 August 1943, (The Temple, Harold Manson papers).
( 41) Calendar, Search Results - Eliahu Ben-Horin, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar [via internet]).
( 42) Eliahu Ben-Horin, A Brick for the Bridge, p.184, (CZA A300/1).
( 43) Hoover to Ben-Horin, 14 November 1945, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
( 44) Hoover to Ben-Horin, 14 November 1945, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
( 45) Unheaded statement by Hoover, 14 November 1945, (HH PPS - Jewish-Zionist, Clippings).
( 46) Unheaded statement by Hoover, 15 November 1945, (HH PPS - Jewish-Zionist, Clippings).
( 47) "Hoover Urges Resettling Arabs to Solve Palestine Problem", World - Telegram, (New York), 19 November 1945, p.1.
( 48) "Ex-President Hoover on the Palestine Question", Palcor News Agency. Palestine telegraphic service, Bulletin, (London), vol.ix, no.16, 22 November 1945, p.2.
( 49) Elisha Friedman, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, 16 December 1945, p.8E.
( 50) World - Telegram, op. cit.
( 51) Friedman, New York Times, op. cit.
( 52) World - Telegram, op. cit.
( 53) Unheaded statement by Hoover, 14 November 1945, op. cit.
( 54) Ben-Horin to Silver, 23 January 1946, p.3, (CZA A300/24).
( 55) Unheaded statement by Hoover, 15 November 1945, op. cit. ; World - Telegram, op. cit.
( 56) Medoff, op. cit., p.460 fn.39.
( 57) Memorandum no.30, Epstein to Executive of Jewish Agency, 19 February 1946, (CZA Z6/2262) ; Eliahu Elath, The Struggle for the State, vol.1, (Tel-Aviv, 1979), pp.15-16.
( 58) Der Tog, (New York), 20 November 1945, pp.1,2.
( 59) Editorial, "Hoover Plan for Arabs", Der Morgen Journal, (New York), 21 November 1945 p.4 ; Medoff, op. cit. p.461 (English translation).
( 60) Ben-Horin to Hoover, 21 November 1945, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
( 61) Comment of American Zionist Emergency Council on Hoover Plan, [n.d.] (November 1945), (HH PPS - Jewish-Zionist, Clippings).
( 62) Palestine Post, (Jerusalem), 25 November 1945, p.1 ; Ha'aretz, (Tel-Aviv), 25 November 1945, p.1.
( 63) South African Jewish Chronicle, (Cape Town), vol.xxxiv, no.48, (New Series),30 November 1945, p.666 ; Palestine, (New York), vol.2, no.9,10, November-December 1945, p.16.
( 64) Yoel Rafel, "Transfer - the Version of President Herbert Hoover", Hadoar, (New York), vol.lxviii, no.1 (2912), 4 November 1988, p.11
( 65) Ben-Horin to Silver, 23 January 1946, op. cit. p.2.
( 66) Silver to Ben-Horin, 25 January 1946, (CZA A300/24).
( 67) Ben-Horin to Friedman, 28 January 1946, (CZA A300/24).
( 68) Roberts to Hoover, 28 November 1945, (HH PPS - American Jewish Congress).
( 69) Hoover to Roberts, 30 November 1945, (HH PPS - American Jewish Congress).
( 70) Medoff, op. cit., p.462 fn.46.
( 71) Western Union Telegram, Hoover to Joseph Schlossberg, 24 November 1945, (HH PPS - Palestine).
( 72) Calendar, 28 November 1945, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar).
( 73) Memorandum, Epstein to Executive of Jewish Agency, 19 February 1946, op. cit.
( 74) Calendar, 4 January 1946, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar [via internet]).
( 75) Ben-Horin to Friedman, 4 February 1946, (CZA A300/24).
( 76) Hoover to McDonald, 11 December 1945, op. cit.
( 77) Telegram, Moose to Secretary of State Washington, 25 November 1945, (NA 867N.01/11-2545).
( 78) Ben-Horin to Hoover, 27 November 1945, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
( 79) Ben-Horin, The Middle East, op. cit., p.224.
( 80) Hoover to Friedman, 25 November 1945, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
( 81) Calendar, 28 November 1945, op. cit.
( 82) Miller to Strauss, 26 November 1945, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
( 83) Friedman, New York Times, op. cit.
( 84) Hoover to McDonald, 11 December 1945, (HH PPI - McDonald James G).
( 85) McDonald to Hoover, 12 December 1945, (HH PPI - McDonald James G).
( 86) Friedman to Hoover, 15 January 1946, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
( 87) Frankenstein, Observations to draft report, op. cit., p.5.
( 88) Friedman, New York Times, op. cit.
( 89) Editorial, "King Ibn Saud on Palestine", Great Britain and the East, (London), vol.lx, no.1675, 3 July 1943, pp.11-2.
( 90) Khalil Totah, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, 24 December 1945, p.14.
( 91) Elisha Friedman, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, 6 January 1946, p.8E.
( 92) Calendar, Search Results - Elisha Friedman, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar [via internet]).
( 93) Calendar, 4 January 1946, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar [via internet]).
( 94) Samir Shamma, Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, 13 January 1946, p.8E.
( 95) Friedman, New York Times, 6 January 1946, op. cit.
( 96) Shamma, New York Times, op. cit.
( 97) American Zionist Emergency Council, Minutes of Meeting of Executive Committee, 14 January 1946, pp.1, 4, (CZA F39/385).
( 98) Calendar, Search Results - Eliahu Ben-Horin, op. cit
( 99) Ibid., Addendum, Report of Mr. Ben-Horin�s Interview with Mr. Hoover, (CZA F38/482).
(100) Friedman to Hoover, 15 January 1946, op. cit.
(101) Medoff, Zionism and the Arabs, op cit., p.145.
(102) Calendar, 22 January 1946, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar).
(103) Ben-Horin to Silver, 23 January 1946, op. cit.
(104) Ibid., p.1.
(105) Silver to Ben-Horin, 25 January 1946, op. cit.
(106) Calendar, 22 January 1946, op. cit..
(107) Ben-Horin to Silver, 23 January 1946, op. cit., pp.1-2.
(108) Calendar, 23 January 1946, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar [via internet]).
(109) Fohs to Friedman, 30 January 1946, (CZA A300/24).
(110) Ben-Horin to Fohs, 4 February 1946, (CZA A300/24).
(111) Friedman to Hoover, 5 February 1946, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
(112) Minutes of Meeting at N.Y. Faculty Club, 4 March 1946, (HH PPS - Jewish-Zionist, Clippings) ; Ben-Horin to Silver, 5 March 1946, (CZA A300/24).
(113) Fondiller to Hoover, 6 March 1946, (HH PPS - Jewish- Zionist, Clippings).
(114) Medoff, op. cit., p.468.
(115) Details may be found in: CZA A300/24 ; ISA FM 2402/15, 2402/16, 3037/11, 364/3 ; HH PPI - Friedman, Elisha ; Medoff, op. cit.
(116) Ben-Horin, A Brick for the Bridge, pp.185-86, op. cit.
(117) Press Release, "President Hoover's Support for a Jewish Homeland ...", 22 October 1964, (Zionist Archives, New York).
(118) Ben-Horin, A Brick for the Bridge, p.162, op. cit.
(119) Kirkbride to Wikeley, 29 July 1946, p.1,(PRO FO 816/85).
(120) Ibid., pp.1-2.
(121) Telegram, Prodrome to Foreign Office, 23 August 1946, (PRO FO 816/85 C208213).
(122) Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, (New York, 1984), p.25.
(123) Proposal, 21 May 1939, (CZA S25/5630).
(124) Ben-Gurion to Shertok, 8 February 1942, p.6, (BGA).
(125) William Bullitt, "A Constructive Solution", The American-British Convention on Palestine, (New York, July 1944), pp.25-28.
(126) Ibid., pp.29-30.
(127) Wauchope to Hall, 2 May 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(128) Memorandum, 2 May 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(129) Note, Wauchope, 2 May 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(130) Hall to District Commissioner Southern District, 2 May 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(131) Wauchope to Commissioner of Somaliland, 26 May 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(132) Wauchope to Governor General of Sudan, 5 June 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(133) Wauchope to Governor of Nigeria, 2 July 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(134) Wauchope to Acting Governor General of Sudan, 18 July 1936, 5 September 1936, 24 October 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(135) e.g. Mohammed Issa to Government of Palestine, 19 June 1936, (ISA M223/I/578/36).
(136) Amery to Churchill, 4 October 1941, Reprinted by Natanel Katzberg, The Palestine Problem in British Policy 1940 - 1945, (Jerusalem, 1977), p.18.
(137) Gavriel Cohen, Churchill and Palestine 1939 - 1942, (Jerusalem, 1976), p.47 (Hebrew numerals).
(138) quoted by Joseph Schechtman, Population Transfers in Asia, (New York, 1949), pp.117-18.
(139) Norman Angell, "The Conditions for Zionist Success", Jewish Frontier, (New York), vol.x, no.6 (101), June 1943, pp.12-14.
(140) Edwyn Bevan, Letters to the Editor, The Times, (London), 11 September 1936, p.10.
(141) Ely Culbertson, Summary of the World Federation Plan, (New York, 1943), p.23.
(142) Ibid., pp.21-22.
(143) Ely Culbertson, �No Solution Without a Plan�, The New Palestine, (New York), vol.xxxiii, no.9, 5 March 1943, p.6.
(144) Ely Culbertson, �No Solution Without a Plan�, Palestine - A Jewish Commonwealth in Our Time, (Washington D.C., 1943), pp.26-29.
(145) Ben-Gurion, Memoirs, vol.4, op. cit., p.462.
(146) John Gunther, Inside Asia, (New York, 1939), p.589.
(147) Walter Clay Lowdermilk, Palestine, Land of Promise, (New York, 1944), p.178.
(148) Emanuel Neumann, In the Arena, (New York, 1976), p.176.
(149) Book Review, Zionews, (New York), vol.v, no.2, July 1944, pp.22-23.
(150) Medoff, thesis, p.290.
(151) Memorandum, Francis A. Kettaneh to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, April 1943, pp.2-3, (PRO FO 371/35034 E2686/87/31).
(152) Richard Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary 1917 - 1956, (London, 1959), pp.171-72.
(153) Ibid., p.191.
(154) James Parkes, "The Jewish World since 1939", International Affairs, (London), vol.21, 1945, pp.97-98.
(155) Sir John Hope Simpson, "The Jewish World since 1939 - A comment on Dr. James Parkes' Paper", International Affairs, (London), vol.21, 1945, p.101.
(156) Ibid,, pp.103-04.
(157) Carl J. Friedrich, "British Policy in Palestine", The Menorah Journal, (New York), vol.xxxiii, no.2, October - December 1945, p.249.
(158) Morris, Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, op. cit., p.56.
(159) John Glubb, A Further Note on Partition as a Solution of the Palestine Question, p.35, (PRO CO 537/1856).
(160) Ibid., p.36.
(161) Morris, Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, op. cit., p.57.
(162) Richard Fox, Reinhold Niebuhr, a Biography, (New York, 1985), p.226.
(163) Stenographic Report, Hearing before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Washington D.C., 14 January 1946, pp.141-42, (CZA gimmel 9960 b viii).
(164) Ibid., p.147.
(165) Fox, op. cit., p.226.
(166) Memorandum of Conversation with Mousa Al-Alami, 6 October 1945, p.1, (NA 867N.01/10-945).
(167) Bertrand Russell, �Zionism and the Peace Settlement�, The New Palestine, (New York), vol.xxxiii, no.15, 11 June 1943, p.5; Bertrand Russell, �Zionism and the Peace Settlement�, Palestine - A Jewish Commonwealth in Our Time, op.cit., pp.19-20; Dina Porat, "Bertrand Russell on the Jewish State: 1943", Zionism, (Tel-Aviv), vol.3, Spring 1981, p.128.
(168) Harry St John B. Philby, Arabian Jubilee, (London, 1952), p.212.
(169) Ibid., pp.212-13.
(170) Notes on Meeting between Weizmann, Shertok, Namier and Philby, 6 October 1939, p.1, (WA).
(171) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.219.
(172) Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians, (Washington D.C., 1992), p.156.
(173) Note of Meeting between Namier and Philby, 24 September 1939, p.1, (CZA Z4/14615).
(174) Moshe Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 6 October 1939, p.17, (CZA S25/198/3) ; Diaries of Sharett, vol.iv, op. cit., p.374.
(175) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.213.
(176) Note of Meeting between Namier and Philby, op. cit., p.3.
(177) Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 6 October 1939, op. cit., p.18 ; Diaries of Sharett, vol.iv, op. cit., pp.374-75.
(178) Ibid., p.17 ; Ibid., p.374.
(179) Notes on Meeting between Weizmann, Shertok, Namier and Philby, op. cit., p.1.
(180) Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 6 October 1939, op. cit., p.20 ; Diaries of Sharett, vol.iv, op. cit., p.376.
(181) Notes on Meeting between Weizmann, Shertok, Namier and Philby, op. cit., p.2.
(182) Ibid.
(183) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.213.
(184) Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 6 October 1939, op. cit.,
p.20 ; Diaries of Sharett, vol.iv, op. cit., p.376.
(185) Elizabeth Monroe, Philby of Arabia, (London, 1973), p.219.
(186) Norman Rose, Lewis Namier and Zionism, (Oxford, 1980), p.95.
(187) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.211.
(188) Yehoshua Porath, "The Philby Episode", Hazionut, vol.ix, (Tel-Aviv), 1984, p.227.
(189) Minutes J. A. Exec., vol.31/1, no.18, 26 November 1939, p.6, (CZA).
(190) Porath, Hazionut, op. cit., p.230.
(191) David Ben-Gurion, Diary entry 17 November 1939, (BGA).
(192) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 26 November 1939, op. cit.; Ben-Gurion, Diary entry 17 November 1939, op. cit.
(193) Minutes of Meeting of Political Committee of Mapai, 8 November 1939, p.10, (Mapai, file 23/39).
(194) Minutes of Meeting of Political Committee of Mapai, 27 November 1939, p.8, (Mapai, file 23/39).
(195) Porath, Hazionut, op. cit., p.231.
(196) Short Note of Weizmann's Interview with Winston Churchill, 17 December 1939, (WA).
(197) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.211.
(198) Philby's Note on Interview with Hoskins, 17 November 1943, (henceforth Philby's Memo), p.5, (WA).
(199) Notes on Meeting between Weizmann, Shertok, Namier and Philby, op. cit., p.2.
(200) Telegram, Weizmann to Philby, 6 February 1940, (WA) ; Weizmann Letters, vol.xix, op. cit., no.206, p.224.
(201) Telegram, Philby to Weizmann, 13 February 1940, (WA).
(202) Dora Philby to Namier, 21 February 1940, (WA).
(203) Memorandum of Conversation, State Department U.S.A. Division of Near Eastern Affairs,
6 February 1940, p.8, (NA 867N.01/1689).
(204) Note of Conversation between Roosevelt and Weizmann, 8 February 1940, (WA).
(205) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.211.
(206) Dora Philby to Weizmann, 3 April 1940, (WA).
(207) Dora Philby to Weizmann, 16 April 1940, (WA).
(208) Weizmann to Dora Philby, 24 April 1940, (CZA Z4/14615).
(209) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., pp.213-14.
(210) Philby's Memo, p.6.
(211) Minutes J. A. Exec., vol.37/1, no.39, 27 April 1943, p.8, (CZA).
(212) Philby's Memo, p.6.
(213) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.214.
(214) "Philby says Britain rejected his Arab plan that would have averted trouble in Iraq", The New York Times, 9 May 1941, p.5.
(215) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.215.
(216) Note of Interview with Lord Moyne, 28 July 1941, (WA).
(217) Moyne to MacMichael, 6 August 1941, (PRO CO 733/444 75872/115).
(218) MacMichael to Moyne, 1 September 1941, p.2, (PRO CO 733/444 75872/115).
(219) Martin to Prime Minister, 3 November 1941, (PRO PREM 4/52/5).
(220) The War Diaries of Oliver Harvey, ed. John Harvey, (London, 1978), p.59.
(221) Ibid., p.28.
(222) Ibid., p.194.
(223) Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, (London, 1949), p.526.
(224) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 2 December 1943, p.2, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
(225) Weizmann Letters, vol.xxi, op. cit., no.106, p.108.
(226) Philby, Arabian Jubilee, op. cit., p.215.
(227) Weizmann, Trial and Error, op. cit., p.525.
(228) Cypher Telegram, Cranborne to MacMichael, 23 March 1942, pp.1-2, (PRO CO 733/444 E 75871/115).
(229) Minutes J. A. Exec., London, 23 November 1942, p.4, (CZA Z4/302/26).
(230) Ibid., pp.2-3.
(231) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 16 January 1943, (CZA Z4/302/26).
(232) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 18 January 1943, p.1, (CZA Z4/302/26).
(233) Memorandum of Conversation between Weizmann and Welles, 26 January 1943, pp.1-2, (WA).
(234) Ibn Saud to Roosevelt, 30 April 1943, FRUS, p.773.
(235) Meeting between Weizmann, Roosevelt and Welles, 12 June 1943, p.3, (CZA Z5/1378).
(236) Minute of Conversation with Hon. Sumner Welles - Under Secretary of State, 21 June 1943, Washington D.C., (CZA Z6/2262).
(237) Cordell Hull to Hoskins, 7 July 1943, FRUS, p.796.
(238) Memorandum by Harold Hoskins, 31 August 1943, FRUS, pp.807-09.
(239) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 20 December 1943, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
(240) Memorandum by Harold Hoskins, 31 August 1943, FRUS, p.809.
(241) Memorandum on Meeting between Hoskins and Roosevelt, 27 September 1943, FRUS, p.812.
(242) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 15 November 1943, p.2, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
(243) Weizmann to Welles, 7 December 1943, p.2, (CZA Z4/15463) ; Weizmann Letters, vol.xxi, op. cit., no.106, p.109.
(244) Ibid., p.1 ; Ibid., p.108.
(245) Philby's Memo, op. cit., p.1.
(246) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 11 November 1943, p.1, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
(247) Ibid.
(248) Philby's Memo, op. cit., p.2.
(249) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 15 November 1943, op. cit., p.2 ; Philby's Memo, op. cit., p.2.
(250) Philby's Memo, op. cit., p.2.
(251) Ibid., pp.4-5.
(252) Weizmann to Welles, 7 December 1943, p.1, op. cit. ; Weizmann Letters, vol. xxi, op. cit., no.106, p.109.
(253) Philby's Memo, op. cit., pp.3-4.
(254) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 2 December 1943, p.1, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
(255) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 25 January 1944, pp.1-3, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
(256) Comments by Civil Servants, 13 January 1944, (PRO FO 371/40139 E 206/206/31).
(257) Peterson to Campbell, 25 January 1944, (PRO FO 371/40139 E 206/206/31).
(258) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 7 January 1944, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
(259) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 7 February 1944, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
(260) Weizmann to Smuts, 12 June 1944, p.3, (WA) ; Weizmann, Letters, vol.xxi, op. cit., no.169, p.191.
(261) Memorandum by Harold Hoskins, 31 August 1943, FRUS, pp.809-10.
(262) Monroe, Philby of Arabia, op. cit., p.222.
(263) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 25 January 1944, op. cit., p.2.
(264) Note of Meeting between Namier and Philby, op. cit., p.1.
(265) Weizmann to Rosenman, 4 January 1944, p.2, (CZA Z4/15463) ; Weizmann Letters, vol.xxi, op. cit., no.118, p.118.
(266) Weizmann to Welles, 7 December 1943, p.3, op. cit. ; Ibid., vol.xxi, no.106, p.110.
(267) Philby's Memo, op. cit., pp.6-7.
(268) Ibid., pp.8-9.
(269) Ibid., p.10.
(270) Plan by Namier and Blanche Dugdale, (no heading on plan), 13 November 1939, (CZA A312/27).
(271) Mrs. Edgar Dugdale ["Baffy"], "Notes from London", Congress Weekly, (New York), vol.8, no.30, 5 September 1941,

SECTION 3. THE PEEL COMMISSION REPORT
( 1 ) Palestine Royal Commission Report, Cmd 5479, London, July 1937, Chapter xxii, (henceforth Peel Report), para.36, p.389.
( 2 ) Ibid., para.39, p.390.
( 3 ) "Refugees and the Exchange of Populations", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol.19, (Chicago, 1955), p.56.
( 4 ) Peel Report, para.39, p.390.
( 5 ) Ibid., para. 40, p.390.
( 6 ) Ibid.
( 7 ) Ibid., para.41, pp.390-91.
( 8 ) Ibid., para.42, p.391.
( 9 ) Ibid., para.43, p.391.
( 10) Ibid., para.44, pp.391-92.
( 11) Ibid., para.45, p.392.
( 12) Ibid., para.46, p.392.
( 13) Reginald Coupland, Note for Discussion on Partition, undated (8 June 1937 ?), p.1, (PRO CO 733/346/75550/41).
( 14) Ibid., p.12.
( 15) Ibid., pp.18-22.
( 16) Ibid., p.22.
( 17) Ibid., p.23.
( 18) Ibid., pp.23-24.
( 19) Ibid., pp.27-28.
( 20) Coupland to Weizmann, 17 April 1938, p.1, (CZA S25/10058).
( 21) Laurie Hammond, Note on 'Clean Cut', 23 May 1937, p.3, (PRO CO 733/346/75550/41).
( 22) Schechtman, Population Transfers in Asia, op. cit., p.89.
( 23) Parliamentary Debates, Commons, vol.445, 12 December 1947, c.1385.
( 24) Schechtman, Population Transfers in Asia, op. cit., p.89.
( 25) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 21 October 1936, pp.9-11, (CZA).
( 26) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 1 November 1936, pp.8-9, (CZA).
( 27) Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians, op. cit., p.58.
( 28) Minutes, Inner Zionist Council, 11 February 1937, (p.295), (CZA S5/293) ; The Diaries of Moshe Sharett, vol.ii, (Tel-Aviv, 1971), pp.16-17.
( 29) Moshe Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry, 23 March 1937, pp.77-78, (CZA A245/2) ; Ibid., pp.90-91.
( 30) Moshe Shertok, Diary notes, 12 June 1937, pp.58-59, (CZA A245/6) ; Ibid., pp.187-88.
( 31) Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians, op. cit., p.56.
( 32) Ben-Gurion, Memoirs, vol.4, pp.206-07.
( 33) Warburg to Hexter, 17 July 1937, (American Jewish Archives, Felix Warburg papers, box 340, folder 2).
( 34) Re: Partition. Outlines for an Inquiry into the Problems of Exchange of Land & Population, 11 July 1937, (CZA S25/10109).
( 35) "Why Ignore Transjordan?" The New Palestine, (New York), vol.xxvii, no.17, 7 May 1937, p.4.
( 36) Medoff, thesis, pp.186-87.
( 37) "Palestine Partition and its Implications", The New Palestine, (New York), vol.xxvii, no.21, 4 June 1937, p.5.
( 38) Palestine Report, Preliminary departmental comments on the recommendations of the Royal Commission, 23 June 1937, p.4, (PRO FO 371/20807 E 3427 6029).
( 39) Ibid., pp.4-6.
( 40) Memorandum on Palestine Report, 19 June 1937, (PRO FO 371/20807 E 3330).
( 41) Palestine Report, Departmental Comments, 23 June 1937, op. cit., p.2 (un-numbered) of introduction.
( 42) Ibid., p.3 (un-numbered) of introduction.
( 43) Report of Palestine Royal Commission, Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 25 June 1937, p.2, (PRO CAB 24/270 5268 [C. P. 166 (37)]).
( 44) Ibid., pp.4-6.
( 45) Palestine Report, Memorandum from Foreign Office (Rendel Minutes), 28 June 1937, p.2 (un-numbered), (PRO FO 371/20807 E 3531 5268).
( 46) Ibid., pp.4-7 (un-numbered).
( 47) Palestine, Statement of Policy by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, Cmd 5513.
( 48) Ibid., para.3.
( 49) Ibid., para.7.
( 50) "Weizmann more formidable than Churchill", Jewish Chronicle, (London), 27 December 1963, p.11.
( 51) Editorial, "Balfour Declaration Myth", Jewish Chronicle, (London), 3 January 1964, p.7.
( 52) Sir Alec Kirkbride, A Crackle of Thorns, (London, 1956), p.19.
( 53) Lord Boothby, Letters to the Editor, Jewish Chronicle, (London), 17 January 1964, p.7.
( 54) Sykes, Cross Roads to Israel, op. cit., p.61 fn.1
( 55) Lord Boothby, Letters to the Editor, Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, (London), 28 February 1964, p.20.
( 56) Lord Boothby, Letters to the Editor, Jewish Chronicle, (London), 24 January 1964, p.7.
( 57) Boothby, Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, 28 February 1964, op. cit.
( 58) Telegram, Clayton to British Foreign Office, 18 November 1918, p.6, (PRO FO 371/3385 F747/191229).
( 59) Boris Guriel, Letters to the Editor, Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, London, 6 March 1964, p.21.
( 60) Ibid., p.22.
( 61) "Was Boothby Right?", Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, (London), 7 February 1964, p.9.
( 62) Leon Simon, Letters to the Editor, Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, (London), 21 February 1964, p.26.
( 63) Leon Simon, Letters to the Editor, Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, (London), 6 March 1964, p.22.
( 64) Telegram, Earl Curzon to Colonel French, Foreign Office, London, 4 August 1919, Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919 - 1939, First Series, vol.iv, 1919, ed. E. L. Woodward and Rohan Butler, (London, 1952), (henceforth BFP), p.329.
( 65) Herbert Samuel to Sir W. Tyrrell, 5 June ,1919, BFP, pp.283-84.
( 66) Boothby, Jewish Chronicle, 17 January 1964, op. cit.
( 67) A. Bonne, Outline for an Enquiry into the Problems of Exchange of Land and Population, Jerusalem, July 1937, p.1, (CZA S25/10059).
( 68) Ibid., pp.1-3.
( 69) Ibid., p.3.
( 70) Ibid., pp.3-4.
( 71) Ibid., pp.4-9.
( 72) Halukat haTafkidim (Distribution of Duties), undated, (CZA S25/10109).
( 73) H. Oppenheimer, Memorandum, The Economic Position of the Arab Minority in the Proposed Jewish State, July 1937, pp.1-2, (CZA S25/8127).
( 74) Note of Conversation with Ormsby-Gore, 28 June 1937, pp.4-5, (WA).
( 75) Baffy, op. cit., p.48.
( 76) Ibid., p.49.
( 77) Weizmann to Wise, 29 June 1937, p.2, (American Jewish Historical Society, Stephen Wise Papers, Box 122).
( 78) Minutes of Mapai Central Committee, 5 July 1937, pp.7-8, (Mapai, file 23/37, vol.2).
( 79) Ibid., p.12.
( 80) Ibid., p.13.
( 81) Minutes of Meeting of Mapai Council, 9-11 July 1937, address by Tabenkin, p.17, (Mapai Archives).
( 82) Ibid., address by Katznelson, p.24, (Mapai Archives).
( 83) Ibid., address by Idelson, pp.4-5, (Mapai Archives).
( 84) Ibid., address by Wilkansky, pp.12-13, (Mapai Archives).
( 85) Minutes of Mapai Political Committee. 30 March 1936, p.1, (Mapai, file 2-23-1936-12).
( 86) Minutes of Mapai Central Committee, 5 - 6 February 1937, pp.11-12, (Mapai, file 23/37, vol.2).
( 87) Diaries of Sharett, vol.ii, op. cit., p.70.
( 88) Minutes of Zionist General Council, Jerusalem, 22 April 1937, pp.9-10, (CZA S5 277/1).
( 89) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 16 January 1943, p.5, (CZA Z4/302/26).
( 90) Al Darcei M'dinateinu, (Tel-Aviv, 1938), p.61.
( 91) Ibid., pp.72-73.
( 92) Ibid., pp.179-80.
( 93) Yosef Gorny, The Arab Question and the Jewish Problem, (Tel-Aviv, 1985), p.433 ; Yosef Gorny, Zionism and the Arabs 1882-1948, (Oxford, 1987), p.259 fn.40.
( 94) Al Darcei M'dinateinu, op. cit., p.116.
( 95) Ibid., p.82.
( 96) Ibid., p.122.
( 97) Ibid., p.123.
( 98) Ibid., pp.93-94.
( 99) Ibid., p.168.
(100) Ibid., p.100.
(101) Ibid., p.126.
(102) Ibid., p.128.
(103) Ibid., pp.106-07.
(104) Ibid., p.132.
(105) Ibid., p.133.
(106) Ibid., p.146.
(107) Ibid., p.91.
(108) Ibid., p.196.
(109) Ibid., pp.191-92.
(110) Ibid., p.135.
(111) Ibid., p.136.
(112) Shmuel Dothan, Partition of Eretz-Israel in Mandatory Period, (Jerusalem, 1979), p.153.
(113) Parliamentary Debates, Lords, vol.106, (henceforth Lords), 20 July 1937, cols.634-35.
(114) Ibid., col.660.
(115) Ibid., col.669.
(116) Weizmann Letters, vol. xviii, op. cit., no.155, p.166.
(117) David Ben-Gurion, Handwritten Diary entry 17 July 1937, (BGA) ; Ben-Gurion, Memoirs, vol.4, op. cit. p.302.
(118) Lords, 20 July 1937, col.651.
(119) Parliamentary Debates, Commons, vol.326, (henceforth Commons), 21 July 1937, col.2250.
(120) Ben-Gurion, Memoirs, vol.4, op. cit., p.123.
(121) Commons, 21 July 1937, col.2357.
(122) Ibid., col.2294.
(123) Ibid., col.2296.
(124) Ibid., col.2289.
(125) Ibid., cols.2300-01.
(126) Ibid., cols.2301-02.
(127) Ibid., col.2302.
(128) Josiah C. Wedgwood, Letters to the Editor, The Times, (London), 21 July 1937, p.10.
(129) Commons, 21 July 1937, col.2320.
(130) Ibid., cols.2309-10.
(131) Ibid., cols.2325-27.
(132) Ibid., col.2342.
(133) Ibid., col.2367.
(134) David Ben-Gurion, Handwritten Diary entry 27 July 1937, (BGA) ; Ben-Gurion, Memoirs, vol.4, op. cit., p.318.
(135) Ormsby-Gore to Cabinet, 11 August 1937, (PRO CAB C.P. 203(37)).
(136) 12 M.P.s to Ormsby-Gore, 29 July 1937, (PRO CAB C.P. 203(37)).
(137) League of Nations, Permanent Mandates Commission, Minutes of the Thirty-Second (Extraordinary) Session, Geneva, July - August 1937, (henceforth PMC Minutes), pp.21-22.
(138) Aumann, Land Ownership in Palestine, op. cit., p.14.
(139) PMC Minutes, p.22.
(140) Ibid., p.26.
(141) Ibid., p.177.
(142) Ibid., p.40.
(143) Ibid., p.181.
(144) Ibid., p.177.
(145) Ibid., p.179.
(146) Ibid., p.192.
(147) Ibid., p.181.
(148) Ibid., pp.177-78.
(149) Ibid., p.198.
(150) Ibid., p.201.
(151) Ibid., p.202.
(152) Ibid., pp.227-30.
(153) Ibid., p.229; League of Nations Official Journal, vol.18, 1937, p.1093.
(154) League of Nations Official Journal, vol.18, 1937, pp.899-904.
(155) League of Nations Official Journal, Special Supplement, no.175, Records of the Eighteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly, Minutes of the Sixth Committee (Political Questions), Geneva, 1937, (henceforth L. of N. 175), p.24.
(156) Moshe Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 21 September 1937, p.60, (CZA A245/2) ; Diaries of Sharett, vol.ii, op. cit., p.332.
(157) L. of N. 175, p.27.
(158) "Medhi Frasheri, 88, Ex-Albanian Leader", The New York Times, 28 May 1963, p.28.
(159) League of Nations Official Journal, Special Supplement no.169, Records of the Eighteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly. Plenary Meetings, Text of the Debate, Geneva, 1937.
(160) Ibid., Annex 5, p.140.
(161) �How Zionist Leaders Doctored Historical Documents About Plans for Mass �Ethnic Cleansing� of Palestinian Arabs�, Benny Morris, Internet, http://www.a-squared.net/azw/library/articles/data/6.htm ; Benny Morris, �Kach shuptsu hamismachim hazionim�, Ha�aretz, (Tel-Aviv), 4 February 1994, p.5B.
(162) CZA S5/1543.
(163) Morris, Internet, op.cit.; Morris, Ha�aretz, op.cit.
(164) Official Minutes of 20th Zionist Congress, (Zurich 1937), (henceforth 20th ZC), p.154; Congress Newspaper, (Zurich 1937), no.6, 11 August 1937, p.4.
(165) Ibid., p.160; Ibid., p.5.
(166) Ibid., pp.124-25; Ibid., no.5, 10 August 1937, p.8.
(167) Ibid., p.125; Ibid.
(168) Ibid., p.72.
(169) Ibid., p.79; Congress Newspaper, no.5, op.cit., p.2.
(170) Ibid., pp.95-110.
(171) Typewritten transcript of address by Ben-Gurion to 20th Zionist Congress, 7 August 1937, p.2, (CZA S5/1543).
(172) "World Zionist Congress", Daily News Bulletin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, (London), vol.xviii, no.184, 9 August 1937, p.2.
(173) Palcor Bulletin Zionist Congress, Zurich, Bulletin no.7, 8 August 1937, p.4.
(174) 20th ZC, p.142; Congress Newspaper, no.6, op.cit., p.2.
(175) Ibid., p.61.
(176) Ibid., p.176; Congress Newspaper, no.7, 12 August 1937, p.3.
(177) Typewritten transcript of address by Tabenkin to 20th Zionist Congress, 9 August 1937, p.2, (CZA S5/1543).
(178) Typewritten transcript of address by Ruppin to 20th Zionist Congress, 6 August 1937, p.1, (CZA S5/1543).
(179) Ibid., p.2.
(180) 20th ZC, p.43; Congress Newspaper, no.4, 8 August 1937, p.1.
(181) Ibid., p.142; Ibid., no.6, op.cit., p.2.
(182) Ibid., p.211; Ibid., no.8, 13 August 1937, p.2.
(183) Ibid., p.155; Ibid., no.6, op.cit., p.4.
(184) Ibid., p.126; Ibid., no.5, op.cit., p.8.
(185) Ibid., p.148; Ibid., no.6, op.cit., p.3.
(186) Ibid., p.164; Ibid., p.5.
(187) Typewritten transcript of address by Glikson to 20th Zionist Congress, 9 August 1937, p.4, (CZA S5/1543).
(188) Ibid.
(189) "Congress Rejects Partition Plan", The Jewish Chronicle, (London), 13 August 1937, p.23.
(190) Typewritten transcript of addresses by Myerson, Shertok and Riftin to 20th Zionist Congress, (CZA S5/1543).
(191) 20th ZC, p.188; Congress Newspaper, no.7, op.cit., p.4.
(192) Stephen Wise, "Answer to Britain Is 'Non Possumus'", The New Palestine, (New York), vol. xxvii, no.26, 3 September 1937, p.6.
(193) Minutes of 20th Zionist Congress, (Zurich, 1937), pp.133-38.
(194) Ibid., p.212.
(195) Medoff, thesis, p.194.
(196) Morris, Internet, op.cit. ; Morris, Ha�aretz. op.cit.
(197) Minute, Foreign Office, 11 December 1937, p.2, (PRO FO 371/20822 E 7298).
(198) 20th ZC, p.23 (Hebrew numerals).
(199) Ibid., pp.33-34 (Hebrew numerals).
(200) Ibid., p.50 (Hebrew numerals).
(201) Ibid., p.51 (Hebrew numerals).
(202) Ibid., p.52 (Hebrew numerals).
(203) Notes on Conference, 25 October 1937, (CZA S25/10109).
(204) Minutes, J. A. Exec., vol 27/1, no.14, 21 November 1937, p.3, (CZA).
(205) Minutes, Population Transfer Committee, 15 November 1937, (CZA S25/10060).
(206) Political Department of Jewish Agency to Jewish Farmers Federation of Palestine, 16 November 1937, (CZA S25/10060).
(207) Jewish Farmers Federation of Palestine to Political Department of Jewish Agency, 22 November 1937, (CZA S25/10060).
(208) Minutes, Population Transfer Committee, 21 November 1937, pp.1-4, (CZA S25/10060).
(209) Ibid., p.5.
(210) Ibid., pp.6-7.
(211) Ibid., pp.7-8.
(212) Joseph Weitz, Handwritten Diary entry 21 November 1937, pp.381-82, (CZA A246/3) ; Weitz, Diary, op. cit., vol.1, p.287.
(213) Minutes, Population Transfer Committee, 29 November 1937, pp.1-3, (CZA S25/10060).
(214) Ibid., p.4.
(215) Thon to Jewish Agency Political Department, 30 November 1937, (CZA S25/10060).
(216) Minutes, Sub-Committee on Transfer of Arabs, 1 & 5 December 1937, pp.1-2, (CZA S25/10060).
(217) Ibid., p.3.
(218) Minutes, Population Transfer Committee, Sub-Committee on Settlement, 5 December 1937, pp.1-2, (CZA S25/10060).
(219) Minutes, Sub-Committee on Transfer of Arabs (Procedural Questions), 19 December 1937, (CZA S25/10060).
(220) ? to Lourie, 29 December 1937, (CZA S25/10109).
(221) Memorandum, Exchange of Land & Population Committee, undated (December 1937), (CZA S25/10109).
(222) Memorandum, Simon to Shertok, 27 January 1938, p.2, (CZA S25/10060).
(223) Simon to Joseph, 5 January 1938, (CZA S25/10109, S25/5123).
(224) Simon to Thon, 3 February 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(225) Minutes of Meeting regarding collection of material for the Technical Commission, 10 March 1938, p.3, (CZA S25/5123).
(226) Minutes, Population Transfer Committee, 23 March 1938, pp.1-2, (CZA S25/10060).
(227) Various Memoranda etc., may be found in CZA S25/10059, S25/10060, S25/10061, S25/8929.
(228) Epstein to Simon, 17 March 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(229) Minutes, Population Transfer Committee, 23 March 1938, p.2, (CZA S25/10060).
(230) Ibid., pp.2-3.
(231) Ibid., p.3.
(232) Lipschitz to Thon, 28 March 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(233) Minutes, Subcommittee on Transfer of Population, 22 May 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(234) Eliahu Elath (Epstein), Zionism and the Arabs, (Tel-Aviv, 1974), p.15.
(235) Simon to Thon, Weitz, Lipschitz, 26 April 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(236) Rapport sur le Territoire de Jezire, (unsigned), 7 April 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(237) Simon to Thon et al., 26 April 1938, op. cit.
(238) Eliahu Epstein, Memorandum "The Jezireh", April 1938, (CZA S25/10059).
(239) Epstein to Thon, 28 April 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(240) Lipschitz to Thon, 1 May 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(241) Simon to Horowitz, 31 March 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(242) Minutes, Transfer Committee, 22 May 1938, p.1, (CZA S25/10060).
(243) Hecker to the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, 23 May 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(244) Hecker to ?, 26 May 1938 (CZA S25/10061).
(245) Simon to various members of Jewish Agency Executive, 3 March 1938, (CZA S25/10109).
(246) Wilhelm Hecker, Memorandum "Exchange of Land and Population", [n.d.], pp.1-2, (CZA S25/10060).
(247) Ibid., pp.2-3.
(248) Ibid., p.3.
(249) Ibid., pp.4-5.
(250) Minutes, Sub-Committee on Population Transfer, 12 June 1938, (CZA S25/10059).
(251) Yossi Katz, Partner to Partition, (London, 1998), pp. 102, 108.
(252) Ibid., p.102.
(253) Minutes, Committee for Determination of Agricultural Absorptive Capacity of Different Areas of the Country, 14 June 1938, pp.3-4, (CZA S25/42).
(254) Ibid., p.5.
(255) Alfred Bonne, Memorandum on financial aspects of transfer of Arabs, 27 July 1938, (CZA S25/10059).
(256) Minutes, J. A. Exec., vol.27/2, no.50, 29 May 1938, p.9, (CZA).
(257) Ibid., p.10.
(258) Ibid., p.11.
(259) Ibid.
(260) Minutes, J. A. Exec., vol.28, no.52, 9 June 1938, p.2, (CZA).
(261) Minutes, J. A. Exec., vol.28, no.53, 12 June 1938, afternoon session, pp.8-9 aleph, (CZA).
(262) Katznelson, Writings, vol.5, op. cit., p.112.
(263) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 12 June 1938, afternoon session, op. cit., pp.1-2 aleph.
(264) Ibid., pp.31-32.
(265) Ibid., p.25.
(266) Ibid., p.23.
(267) Ibid., pp.33-34.
(268) Minutes, Political Committee of Mapai, 8 June 1938, pp.4-5, (Mapai, file 23/38).
(269) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 12 June 1938, afternoon session, op. cit., p.4 aleph.
(270) Ibid., p.27.
(271) Ibid., p.9 aleph.
(272) Ibid., p.26.
(273) Ibid., p.35.
(274) Minutes, J. A. Exec., vol.31/1, no.10, 22 October 1939, p.18, (CZA).
(275) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 12 June 1938, afternoon session, op, cit., p.20.
(276) Ibid., p.32.
(277) Ibid., p.36.
(278) Ibid., p.9 aleph.
(279) Ibid., p.26.
(280) Ibid., p.27.
(281) Ibid.
(282) Ibid., p.28.
(283) Ibid., p.2 aleph.
(284) Ibid., p.25.
(285) Ibid., p.29.
(286) Ibid., p.21.
(287) Ibid., p.35.
(288) Ibid., p.29.
(289) Ibid., p.32.
(290) Ibid., p.26.
(291) Ibid., p.10 aleph.
(292) Ibid., p.21.
(293) Ibid., pp.27-28.
(294) Soskin to Shertok, 27 May 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(295) Selig Soskin, "Exchange of Land and Population", Memorandum to Members of Technical Commission, 23 May 1938, p.1, (CZA S25/10060).
(296) Ibid.
(297) Ibid., pp.1-3.
(298) Ibid., p.4.
(299) Ibid., pp.5-7.
(300) ? to Joseph, 13 June 1938, (CZA S25/10060).
(301) Menachem Ussishkin, Memorandum to the Palestine Partition Commission, 22 July 1938, p.24, (CZA S25/5117).
(302) Ibid., p.15.
(303) Benjamin Akzin, Evidence submitted to the Palestine Partition Commission, 20 June 1938, pp.8-9, (Jabotinsky Archives, 14-4 gimmel).
(304) Ibid., p.20.
(305) Yehoyada Haim, Zionist Attitudes towards the Palestinian Arabs 1936 - 39, Thesis, (Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 1975), p.449.
(306) Ibid., p.448.
(307) Palestine Partition Commission Report, Cmd 5854, London, October 1938, (henceforth Woodhead Report), Policy in Palestine, Cmd 5634, December 1937, - published as Appendix 1 to Woodhead Report, p.282.
(308) Memorandum to Cabinet by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, November 1937, (PRO CAB C.P. 269(37)).
(309) Ibid., Appendix 1, pp.4-5.
(310) Ibid., p.5.
(311) Memorandum to Cabinet by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, November 1937, p.2, (PRO CAB C.P. 281(37)).
(312) Memorandum to Cabinet by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, December 1937, p.1, (PRO CAB C.P. 289(37)).
(313) Ibid., p.10.
(314) Extract from Cabinet Conclusions 46(37), 8 December 1937, p.5, (PRO FO 371/20822 E7298).
(315) Ibid., pp.5,7.
(316) Ibid., p.8.
(317) Ibid., pp.13-14.
(318) Ibid., p.15.
(319) Memorandum to Cabinet by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, December 1937, p.1, (PRO CAB C.P. 310(37)).
(320) Ibid.
(321) Woodhead Report, Appendix 1, p.283.
(322) Ibid., para.104, p.52.
(323) Ibid., fn.
(324) Ibid., para.105, p.52.
(325) Ibid., para.106, p.53.
(326) Peel Report, p.389.
(327) Woodhead Report, para.178, p.82.
(328) Ibid.
(329) Ibid., para.179, pp.83-84.
(330) Ibid., para.180, p.84.
(331) Ibid., para. 181, p.84.
(332) The Diaries of Moshe Sharett, vol.iii, (Tel-Aviv, 1972), pp.318-19.
(333) Minutes of the Directorate of the J.N.F., 6 July 1938, pp.15-16 (1495-96), (CZA).
(334) Palestine, Statement by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, London, November 1938, Cmd 5893, p.3.
(335) Hammond to Weizmann, 11 November 1938, (WA).
(336) Parliamentary Debates, Commons, vol.341, 24 November 1938, col.2057.
(337) Ibid., col.2078.
(338) Parliamentary Debates, Lords, vol.111, 8 December 1938, col.414.
(339) Ibid., col.421.
(340) Ibid., col.452.

SECTION 4. THE RESOLUTION OF THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY
( 1 ) The International Post-War Settlement, (London, 1944) ; Report of the Forty-third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, London, (London, 1944), pp.4-9.
( 2 ) Ibid., p.7 ; Ibid., p.9.
( 3 ) Clark to Preston, 8 May 1943, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (28)).
( 4 ) Memorandum, Post-War Aims of the British Labour Party, [n.d.] (1943), (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10).
( 5 ) Hugh Dalton, Diary, 22 September 1943, p.3, (LSE).
( 6 ) Ibid., 13 October 1943, p.2, (LSE).
( 7 ) Ibid., 16 & 17 October 1943, p.4, (LSE).
( 8 ) Hugh Dalton, Memoirs, vol.2, 1931 - 1945, The Fateful Years, (London, 1957), p.419.
( 9 ) Memorandum, Post-War Settlement, first draft, [n.d.], Explanatory Page, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (36)).
( 10) Ibid., p.9, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (41)).
( 11) Ibid., pp.6-7, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (39-40)).
( 12) Dalton to Forster, 17 October 1943, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (32)).
( 13) Dalton, Diary, 6 & 7 November 1943, (LSE).
( 14) Memorandum, Post-War Settlement, 12 November 1943, Explanatory Page, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (42)).
( 15) Ibid., p.7. (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (49)).
( 16) Ibid., p.5, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (47)).
( 17) Minutes, International Sub-Committee of the National Executive Committee of the British Labour Party (henceforth Minutes, Int. Sub-Committee), 16 November 1943, p.1, (British Labour Party Archives).
( 18) Dalton, Diary, 16 November 1943, pp.1-2, (LSE); Ben Pimlott, ed., The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton 1940-45 (henceforth Pimlott, Dalton Diary), (London, 1986), p.672.
( 19) Ibid.; Ibid., p.673.
( 20) Dalton, Diary, 8 February 1944, op. cit., p.1; Dalton, Diary, 5 April 1944, p.4, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.732.
( 21) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 18 November 1943, (CZA Z4/302/28i).
( 22) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 16 February 1944, p.3, (CZA Z4/302/28ii).
( 23) Joseph Gorny, The British Labour Movement and Zionism 1917 - 1948, (London, 1983), p.179.
( 24) Dalton, Memoirs, op. cit., p.426.
( 25) Berl Locker, Interview no.5, 9 October 1960, p.6, (Mapai, file 8 - 30).
( 26) Dalton, Diary, 16 November 1943, p.2, (LSE).
( 27) Gillies to Colleagues [Allied Socialists], 27 November 1943, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (51)).
( 28) Dalton, Diary, 10 December 1943, p.8 (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.679.
( 29) Memorandum, International Post-War Settlement, 11 January 1944, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10).
( 30) Private Communication from Labour Party Archivist, 15 January 2003.
( 31) Memorandum, International Post-War Settlement, 11 January 1944, p.15, op. cit.
( 32) Minutes, Int. Sub-Committee, 18 January 1944, p.2 (British Labour Party Archives).
( 33) Dalton, Diary, 18 January 1944, pp.5-6, (LSE).
( 34) Minutes, Int. Sub-Committee, 8 February 1944, (British Labour Party Archives).
( 35) Dalton, Diary, 8 February 1944, p.1, (LSE).
( 36) Ibid.
( 37) Ibid.
( 38) Ibid., 4 & 5 March 1944, p.2, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.718.
( 39) Minutes, Int. Sub-Committee, 14 March 1944, p.1, (British Labour Party Archives).
( 40) Dalton, Diary, 14 March 1944, p.2, (LSE).
( 41) Private Communication from Labour Party Archivist, London, 11 April 1985.
( 42) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 17 February 1944, pp.1-2, (CZA Z4/302/28ii).
( 43) Ibid., 9 March 1944, (CZA Z4/302/28ii).
( 44) Dalton, Diary, 8 March 1944, p.6, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.720.
( 45) Dalton, Memoirs, op. cit., pp.426-7.
( 46) Hugh Dalton, Memoirs, vol.3, 1945 - 1960, High Tide and After, (London, 1962), p.146.
( 47) Dalton, Diary, 22 March 1944, p.3, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.725.
( 48) Minutes, National Executive Committee of British Labour Party, 5 April 1944, (British Labour Party Archives).
( 49) Dalton, Diary, 5 April 1944, pp.4-5, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, pp.732-33.
( 50) Walker to Dalton, 17 April 1944, p.1, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (80)).
( 51) Dalton, Diary, 5 April 1944, p.5, op. cit.; Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.733.
( 52) Noel Baker to Dalton, 8 April 1944, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10).
( 53) Laski to Dalton, 27 March 1944, 8 April 1944, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10).
( 54) Noel Baker to Dalton, 8 April 1944, p.7, op. cit.
( 55) Laski to Dalton, 27 March 1944, p.1, op. cit.
( 56) Private Communication from Photocopying Department LSE, 17 February 2003.
( 57) Dalton to Gillies, 12 April 1944, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10); Dalton to Noel Baker, 12 April 1944, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10); Dalton to Laski, 12 April 1944, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10).
( 58) Minutes, Int. Sub-Committee, 18 April 1944, p.1, (British Labour Party Archives).
( 59) Dalton, Memoirs, vol.2, op. cit., p.423.
( 60) Andrew Sargent, The British Labour Party and Palestine, 1917-1949, Ph.D Thesis, Nottingham University, England, 1980, p.260.
( 61) Ben Pimlott, Hugh Dalton, (London, 1985), p.390.
( 62) Dalton, Diary, 25 May 1944, p.1, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.749.
( 63) Minutes, Mapai Central Committee, (henceforth Minutes Mapai), 8 May 1944, p.15, (Mapai, file 23/44).`
( 64) Weizmann, Trial and Error, op. cit., p.535.
( 65) Minutes, J. A. Exec., vol.39/1, no.44, 7 May 1944, p.10, (CZA); Minutes, Mapai , 8 May 1944, p.16.
( 66) Minutes Mapai, 8 May 1944, p.16.
( 67) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 7 May 1944, op. cit., p.11; Minutes Mapai, 8 May 1944, p.15.
( 68) Minutes Mapai, 8 May 1944, p.16.
( 69) Dalton, Diary, 26 April 1944, p.2, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.739.
( 70) Sutherland to Dalton, 14 April 1944, (LSE, Dalton Papers, 7/10 (48)).
( 71) Note of Conversation with Attlee and Williams, 30 November 1939, pp.2-3, (WA).
( 72) Gorny, British Labour Movement and Zionism, op. cit., p.164.
( 73) Harold Wilson, The Chariot of Israel, (London, 1981), p.125.
( 74) "Poale Zion Commemorate Battle of Warsaw Ghetto", Daily News Bulletin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, (London), vol.xxv, no.100, 28 April 1944, p.2.
( 75) Editorial, "Labour and the Peace", The Times, (London), 24 April 1944, p.5.
( 76) Hugh Dalton, Diary 5 May 1944, pp.4-5, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, pp.740-41.
( 77) Citizens of Acre to High Commissioner, 28 April 1944, (PRO FO 371/40136 E 3780).
( 78) Palestine Post, (Jerusalem), 30 April 1944, p.3.
( 79) Minutes, Colonial Office, 13 May 1944, (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 80) Telegram, Palestine Arab Party to British Foreign Secretary, 8 May 1944, (PRO FO 371/40135 E 2703).
( 81) Minutes, Foreign Office, 9 May 1944, (PRO FO 371/40135 E 2703).
( 82) Ibid., 12 May 1944, (PRO FO 371/40135 E 2703).
( 83) Ibid., 18 May 1944, (PRO FO 371/40135 E 2703).
( 84) Baxter, Foreign Office to Boyd, Colonial Office, 22 May 1944, (PRO FO 371/40135 E 2703).
( 85) Eastwood (?), Colonial Office to Baxter, Foreign Office, 30 May 1944, (PRO FO 371/40135 E 2703).
( 86) Minutes, Colonial Office, 16 May 1944, (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 87) Ragheb Bey Nashashibi, National Defence Party to High Commissioner, 9 May 1944, (Enclosure I), (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 88) Arab Mayors of Palestine to High Commissioner, 5 May 1944, (Enclosure II), (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 89) Resolution of Central Committee of the National Bloc adopted 30 April 1944, (Enclosure III), (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 90) Telegram Moslem Society, Haifa to Colonial Secretary, 11 May 1944, (Enclosure IV), (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 91) Advocates and merchants of Jaffa to British Prime Minister, 30 April 1944, (Enclosure V), (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 92) Sheikhs and merchants and other persons of Jaffa to High Commissioner, 5 May 1944, (Enclosure VI), (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 93) Shaw to Colonial Secretary, 19 May 1944, (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 94) Minutes, Colonial Office, 2 June 1944, (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 95) Colonial Secretary to High Commissioner, 6 July 1944, (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 96) Mukhtars of Gaza sub-District to High Commissioner, [n.d.], (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 97) Extract of telegram from High Commissioner, 29 May 1944, (PRO CO 733/463 75872/130).
( 98) Zionist Review, (London), vol.iv, no.18 (new series), 5 May 1944, p.2.
( 99) "Arab Newspapers on the Proposal of the British Labour Party", Hamashkif, (Tel-Aviv), 26 April 1944, p 90.
(100) Ibid.
(101) "Palestine as Jewish State. Nahas Pasha's Protest", The Times, (London), 11 August 1944, p.3.
(102) Locker, Interview, op. cit., p.7.
(103) Arthur Greenwood, "British Labor and the Jewish Problem", Jewish Frontier, (New York), vol.xi, no.7(114), June 1944, pp.22-23.
(104) Arthur Greenwood, "British Labour and the Jewish Problem", Jewish Labour, (London), June 1944, p.2.
(105) Schneier Levenberg, The Jews and Palestine, A Study in Labour Zionism, (London, 1945), p.215.
(106) Berl Locker, "British Labour's Palestine Policy", Jewish Labour, (London), May 1945, p.12.
(107) Hadi to Greenwood, 23 June 1944, (PRO FO 371/40135 E 2703).
(108) Minutes, Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions, British Labour Party International Department, 10 May 1944, (British Labour Party Archives).
(109) Ibid.
(110) Minutes, National Executive Committee of British Labour Party, 16 May 1944, (British Labour Party Archives).
(111) Minutes, Int. Sub-Committee, 20 June 1944, p.2, (British Labour Party Archives).
(112) Hugh Dalton, Diary, 20 June 1944, p.1, (LSE).
(113) Locker, Interview, op. cit., pp.6-7.
(114) Locker to Gillies, 15 May 1944, (CZA A263/19).
(115) Norman Bentwich, Judaea Lives Again, (London, 1944), p.160.
(116) Sargent, thesis, op, cit., p.265.
(117) Locker to Gillies, op. cit.
(118) Dalton, Diary, 25 May 1944, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.749.
(119) Locker to Dalton, 7 June 1944, (LSE, Dalton papers 7/10 (84)).
(120) Locker, Interview, op. cit., p.7.
(121) Note for Hugh Dalton and George Dallas from Gillies, [n.d.], (British Labour Party Archives, ID/CORR/PAL/5/12ii).
(122) quoted by Locker, Jewish Labour, May 1945, op. cit., p.12.
(123) Ibid.; �Why I Resigned�, Zionist Review, (London), 13 October 1944, p.5.
(124) Leonard Woolf, The International Post-War Settlement, Fabian Publications Research Series, no.85, (London, 1944).
(125) Minutes, J. A. Exec., vol.40/1, no.8, 20 October 1944, p.25, (CZA).
(126) Woolf, International Post-War Settlement, op. cit., p.19.
(127) Locker, Jewish Labour, May 1945, op. cit., p.12.
(128) Woolf, International Post-War Settlement, op. cit., pp.16-17.
(129) Ibid., p.17.
(130) Ben-Horin, The Middle East, op. cit., p.225.
(131) Joseph Schechtman, Postwar Population Transfers in Europe 1945 - 1955, (Pennsylvania, 1962), p.389.
(132) Philips Price, Letters to the Editor, Daily Herald, (London), 29 November 1944, p.2.
(133) Ibid.
(134) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 20 October 1944, op. cit., pp.25-26.
(135) Ibid., 7 May 1944, op. cit., p.10.
(136) "Jewish Commonwealth can be established without transfer of Arabs", Daily News Bulletin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, (London), vol.xxv, no.115, 16 May 1944, p.2.
(137) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 7 May 1944, op. cit., p.10; Minutes Mapai, 8 May 1944, pp.16-17.
(138) Palestine Post, (Jerusalem), 11 May 1944, p.3; Davar, (Tel-Aviv), 11 May 1944, p.1.
(139) �Echoes of a Speech by Ben-Gurion at a Meeting of Journalists�, Hamashkif, (Tel-Aviv), 15 May 1944, p.2.
(140) Dothan, The Struggle for Eretz-Israel, op. cit., p.231.
(141) David Ben-Gurion, "Test of Fulfillment", Jewish Frontier, (New York), vol.ix, no.6 (90), June 1942, p.13.
(142) quoted by Menachem Kedem, "Weizmann, Philby Plan and the Hoskins Mission during the Period of the Second World War", Kivunim, (Jerusalem), vol.9, November 1980, p.63 fn.8.
(143) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 7 May 1944, op. cit., pp.17-19.
(144) Anita Shapira, Land and Power, trans. William Templer, (New York, 1992), pp.285-86.
(145) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 7 May 1944, op. cit., p.24.
(146) Ibid., p.22.
(147) Ibid., p.25.
(148) Ibid.
(149) Ibid., p.26.
(150) Weizmann, Trial and Error, op. cit., p.535.
(151) Minutes Mapai, 8 May 1944, p.17.
(152) Gorny, British Labour Movement and Zionism, op. cit., p.183.
(153) Dalton to Morrison, 28 October 1944, (LSE, Dalton papers 8/1 (100)).
(154) Ibid.
(155) Wise to Holmes, 24 September 1945, (American Jewish Historical Society, Stephen S. Wise papers, box 54) ; The Personal Letters of Stephen Wise, ed. Justine Wise Polier and James Waterman Wise, (Boston, 1956), p.269.
(156) Artur Ben Israel, Letters to the Editor, Tribune, (London), 5 May 1944.
(157) Ephraim Broido, Letters to the Editor, Tribune, (London), 26 May 1944, p.13.
(158) Baruch Ben Shalom, Letters to the Editor, Tribune, (London), 19 May 1944, p.14.
(159) Frederick Jellinek, Letters to the Editor, Tribune, (London), 19 May 1944, p.14.
(160) Editorial, "Post-War as Labour sees it", The Jewish Chronicle, (London), 28 April 1944, p.10.
(161) Editorial, "Assisted Passages for Arabs", The Jewish Chronicle, (London), 26 May 1944, p.10.
(162) Editorial, "A policy for Palestine", Zionist Review, (London), vol.iv, no.17 (new series), 28 April 1944, p.1.
(163) Hans Capell, Letters to the Editor, Zionist Review, (London), vol.iv, no.18 (new series), 5 May 1944, p.6.
(164) Editorial comment to letter of Hans Capell, Zionist Review, (London), vol.iv, no.18 (new series), 5 May 1944, p.6.
(165) Editorial, "Frontiers of the Jewish State", The New Judaea, (London), vol.xv, no.12, September 1944, p.186.
(166) Editorial, "A Red Herring", The Jewish Standard, (London), fifth year, no.3, 28 April 1944, p.4.
(167) Zionews, (New York), vol.4, no.5, 6 March 1942, p.11.
(168) Medoff, thesis, p.280.
(169) Ibid., p.279.
(170) "Statesmanship re Palestine", Opinion, (New York), vol.xiv, no.8, June 1944, p.7.
(171) Notes on the Palestine Situation, Palestine, (New York), May 1944, p.11.
(172) "An Irresistible Case", The New Palestine, (New York), vol.xxxiv, no.16, 5 May 1944.
(173) �A Wise Decision�, Ha�aretz, (Tel Aviv), 15 December 1944, p.2.
(174) �A Damaging Suggestion�, Al Hamishmar, (Tel Aviv), 3 May 1944, p.4.
(175) �Annual Conference�, Davar, (Tel Aviv), 15 December 1944, p.1.
(176) Hugh Dalton, Diary, 13 November 1944, p.1, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, pp.806-07.
(177) Minutes, Policy and International Sub-Committees of the British Labour Party, 14 November 1944, p.1, (British Labour Party Archives).
(178) Hugh Dalton, Diary, 14 November 1944, p.1, (LSE); Pimlott, Dalton Diary, p.807.
(179) Report of the Forty-third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, op. cit., p.131.
(180) Hugh Dalton, Diary, 12 December 1944, p.4, (LSE).
(181) Report of the Forty-third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, op. cit., p.140.
(182) Locker, Interview, op. cit., p.7.
(183) Hugh Dalton, Diary, 26 September 1944, (LSE).
(184) Minutes, J. A. Exec., 20 October 1944, op. cit., p.25.
(185) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 18 December 1944, p.3, (CZA Z4/302/29).
(186) "Labour Party Conference", The Jewish Chronicle, (London), 15 December 1944, p.5.
(187) Minutes, Executive Committee, Liverpool Trades Council and Borough Labour Party, 13 October 1944, (Liverpool Trades Council Archives, 331 TRA 21/4 Reel 9).
(188) Minutes, Council Meeting of Liverpool Trades Council and Borough Labour Party, 19 October 1944, para.62, (Liverpool Trades Council Archives, 331 TRA 21/4 Reel 9); 1944 Conference Agenda, British Labour Party, p.27, Resolution 36, (British Labour Party Archives).
(189) Minutes, Council Meeting of Liverpool Trades Council and Borough Labour Party, 19 October 1944, op. cit., para.63-64.
(190) Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party and Liverpool Jewish Labour Party, Notice of Public Meeting to be held 10 September 1944, (Liverpool Trades Council Archives).
(191) �Labour and Palestine�, Liverpool Daily Post, 11 September 1944.
(192) 1944 Conference Agenda, British Labour Party, p.27, Resolution 35, op. cit.
(193) Ibid.
(194) Ibid., p.26, Resolution 34.
(195) Minutes, Policy and International Sub-Committees of the British Labour Party, 14 November 1944, op, cit., p.3.
(196) Minutes, J. A. Exec., London, 18 December 1944, p.3, op. cit.
(197) �Labour Party Annual Conference�, Zionist Review, (London), 8 December 1944, p.3.
(198) Private Communication from Labour Party Archivist, 18 February 2003.
(199) �Labour�s Support for Commonwealth�, Zionist Review, (London), 1 December 1944, p.2.
(200) �Labour Party and Palestine�, The Jewish Chronicle, (London), 15 December 1944, p.5; �Labour Party Annual Conference�, Zionist Review, 8 December 1944, op. cit., p.3.
(201) Text of Resolution submitted by Poale Zion, sent 10 March 1944, (CZA S25/81).
(202) Minutes, J. A. Exec., vol.40/2, no.33, 16 December 1944, pp.19-20, (CZA).
(203) American Zionist Emergency Council, Book of Documents submitted to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, (New York, 1946), p.212; �Future of Palestine, British Labour Party�s call�, Zionist Review, (London), 27 April 1945, p.2.
(204) Report of Forty-fourth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, Blackpool, (London, 1945), p.100.
(205) Ibid., p.103.
(206) Common Wealth, First Agenda for the Third Conference, Easter 1945, (Sussex University, Common Wealth Papers, SxMs9, Common Wealth Publications, Box 4, 4/11).
(207) Ibid., p.42.
(208) Common Wealth, Supplementary Agenda with Amendments for the Third Conference, Easter 1945, (Sussex University, Common Wealth Papers, SxMs9, Common Wealth Publications, Box 4, 4/14).
(209) Ibid., p.51.
(210) Common Wealth, Third Conference, Easter 1945, sixth session, 1 April 1945, verbatim report, (Sussex University, Common Wealth Papers, SxMs9, Conference Papers, Box 3, 3/2�25).
(211) Ibid., 3/3, p.1.
(212) Ibid.,3/3, 3/5, pp.1, 3.
(213) �Support for Jewish State, Commonwealth Party Conference, Zionist Review, (London), 6 April 1945, p.2.
(214) Ibid.
(215) Common Wealth, sixth session, verbatim report, op. cit., 3/24, 3/25, pp.22, 23.
(216) Ibid., 3/25, p.23.
(217) �Support for Jewish State�, Zionist Review, 6 April 1945, p.2, op cit.
(218) �Common Wealth Party Favours Establishment of Jewish State.�, Daily News Bulletin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, (London), vol.xxvi, no.79, 6 April 1945, pp.3-4, "Common Wealth Party Conference Support Jewish State", The Jewish Standard, (London), sixth year, no.1, 13 April 1945, p.2; "Common Wealth Attitude on Palestine", The Jewish Chronicle, (London), 13 April 1945, p.8; �Support for Jewish State�, Zionist Review, 6 April 1945, p.2, op cit.
(219) �Common Wealth Party Pro-Zionist�, The Palestine Post, (Jerusalem), 5 April 1945, p.3.
(220) Private Communication from Head of Special Collections, University of Sussex, 4 August 2004
(221) Palestine: the Way Out, London, [n.d.] (1947?), pp.18 et seq.

SECTION 5: PROPOSALS BY THE REVISIONISTS
( 1 ) "Resettlement Committee Launched", Zionews, (New York), vol.iv, nos.31-32, September-October 1943, p.3.
( 2 ) Medoff, op. cit., p.455.
( 3 ) Hoover to Sokolsky, 12 May 1943, (HH PPI - Sokolsky, George).
( 4 ) Memorandum for the Hon. Herbert Hoover on the American Resettlement Committee for Uprooted European Jewry, [n.d.], pp.1-9, (HH PPI - Ben-Horin, Eliahu).
( 5 ) Ibid., pp.9-10.
( 6 ) Hoover to Sokolsky, 12 May 1943, op. cit.
( 7 ) Hoover to Ben-Horin, 25 May 1943, top-copy, (HH PPI - Ben- Horin, Eliahu).
( 8 ) Hoover to Ben-Horin, 25 May 1943, carbon-copy, (HH PPI - Ben-Horin, Eliahu).
( 9 ) Calendar, 2 June 1943, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar).
( 10) Calendar, 2 July 1943, (HH Presidential Papers - Calendar).
( 11) Hoover to Ben-Horin, 8 June 1943, (HH PPI - Ben-Horin, Eliahu).
( 12) Medoff, op. cit., p.456 and fn.27, 28 ; Landon to Ben-Horin, 30 July 1943, (Jabotinsky Archives, 3/2/36p).
( 13) "The Jewish Problem Must be Solved", The New York Times, 4 October 1943, p.12.
( 14) Ibid.
( 15) "Palestine Plan Backed", The New York Times, 8 October 1943, p.6.
( 16) "Resettlement Committee Launched", Zionews, (New York), September-October 1943, op. cit., pp.3, 4, 6.
( 17) Editorial, "The American Resettlement Committee", Zionews, September-October 1943, op. cit., pp.10-11.
( 18) Hayim Greenberg, "The Irresponsible Revisionists", Jewish Frontier, (New York), vol.x, no.11 (106), November 1943, pp.6-7.
( 19) Official Minutes of 22nd Zionist Congress (Basle 1946), (Jerusalem), pp.232-33.
( 20) "Zionist Discipline", The New Palestine, (New York), vol.xxxiv, no.9, 21 January 1944, p.205.
( 21) Hannah Arendt, "Zionism Reconsidered", The Menorah Journal, (New York), vol.xxxiii, no.2, Autumn 1945, p.164.
( 22) Ibid., p.167.
( 23) Evidence given by Hanoch Kalay to David Niv, p.4, (Jabotinsky Archives 12/1/346 P); David Niv, The Irgun Zvai Leumi, part 3, (Tel-Aviv, 1967), p.164.
( 24) Hanoch Kalay's Proposals for 'Principles of Renaissance', Tishri 5701 (October 1940), (Lehi Archives K-37).
( 25) Evidence by Kalay, op. cit.; Niv, Irgun Zvai Leumi, op. cit.
( 26) Lohamey Herut Israel Writings, 2nd ed., (Tel-Aviv, 1982), vol.1, cols.27-28.
( 27) Evidence by Kalay, op. cit.
( 28) Evidence by Kalay, op. cit.; Niv, Irgun Zvai Leumi, op. cit.
( 29) Niv, Irgun Zvai Leumi, op. cit., p.165.
( 30) Israel Eldad, Handwritten Commentary on 'Principles of Renaissance', pp.40-42, (Lehi Archives).
( 31) Ibid., vol.2, c.580-81.
( 32) Esther Wilenska, "L'darcom shel 'Lohamey Herut Israel' ", Kol Ha'am, (Tel-Aviv), 15 August 1947, p.2.
( 33) Lohamey Herut Israel, op. cit., vol.2, col.709.
( 34) Joseph Heller, Lehi - Ideology and Politics, 1940-1949, vol.2, (Jerusalem, 1989), p.537.
( 35) Lehi Revealed, Minutes of the Conference of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, (March 1949), ed. Pinhas Ginossar, (Ramat Gan, 1985), p.67.
( 36) Miriam Getter, "The Arab Problem in the Ideology of Lehi", Hazionut, vol.iii, (Tel-Aviv), 1974, pp.437, 602.

SECTION 6: PLANS TO TRANSFER DRUZE AND SHI�ITE MOSLEMS FROM PALESTINE
( 1 ) Report of Abba Hushi on his Journey to Damascus, 14 - 17 March 1939, Negotiations with Sultan al-Atrash and his Representatives, (CZA S25/8221).
( 2 ) Dr. Dov Joseph, Diary Notes, 26 March 1939, p.5. (CZA S25/43).
( 3 ) David Ben-Gurion, Handwritten Diary entry 9 April 1939, (BGA) ; Ben-Gurion, Memoirs, vol. 6, op. cit., p.225.
( 4 ) David Ben-Gurion, Handwritten Diary entry 29 April 1939, (BGA) ; Ibid., p.280.
( 5 ) Weizmann to Goldman, 28 April 1939, (WA) ; Weizmann, Letters, vol.xix, op. cit., no.52, pp.54-55.
( 6 ) Epstein to Kaplan, 3 May 1939, (CZA S25/3523).
( 7 ) Epstein, "Comments on a Plan to Transfer Druze of Palestine to Jebel Druze", p.1, (CZA S25/6638).
( 8 ) Ibid., pp.1-2.
( 9 ) Ibid., pp.2-3.
( 10) Ibid., pp.3-5.
( 11) Ibid., p.5.
( 12) Lipschitz to Epstein, 25 May 1939, (CZA S25/6638).
( 13) Moshe Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 25 May 1939, p.72, (CZA A245/10) ; Diaries of Sharett, vol.iv, op. cit., p.302.
( 14) Moshe Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 28 May 1939, p.77, (CZA A245/10) ; Ibid., p.306.
( 15) Moshe Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 31 May 1939, p.80, (CZA A245/10) ; Ibid., p.307.
( 16) Moshe Shertok, Handwritten Diary entry 4 June 1939, p.84, (CZA A245/10) ; Ibid., p.310.
( 17) Epstein to Hushi, 27 July 1939, (CZA S25/5580).
( 18) Al-'Ismi to Hushi, 5 July 1939, (CZA S25/6638).
( 19) Ibid.
( 20) Al-'Ismi to Hushi, 13 August 1939, (CZA S25/6638).
( 21) Hushi to Weizmann, [n.d.] (8 August 1939 ?), (CZA S25/6638).
( 22) Sasson to Joseph, 20 December 1939, p.4, (CZA S25/3140(1)).
( 23) Ian Black, Zionism and the Arabs 1936 - 1939, (New York, 1986), p.362.
( 24) Reuven Erlich, The Lebanon Tangle, (Tel-Aviv: 2000), pp.117-18
( 25) Memorandum, �My Journey to Beirut�, Sasson to Shertok, 11 August 1941, p.1, (CZA S25/3140); Eliahu Sasson, Baderech el Hashalom, (Tel-Aviv: 1978), p.224
( 26) Erlich, op. cit., pp.118, 600
( 27) Sasson to Shertok, op. cit., p.1; Sasson, op.cit., p.224
( 28) Ibid., pp.1-2; Ibid., pp.224-25

EPILOGUE
( 1 ) Schechtman, Postwar Population Transfers in Europe 1945 - 1955, op. cit., p.390.
( 2 ) Ibid., pp.392-93.
( 3 ) Ibid., pp.393-94.
( 4 ) Ibid., pp.374-75.
( 5 ) Aumann, Land Ownership in Palestine 1880 - 1948, op. cit., passim.
( 6 ) Frankenstein, Justice for My People, op. cit., p.130.
( 7 ) Woolf, International Post-War Settlement, op. cit., p.17.

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