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Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
1945
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history of Palestine
- In Palestine: The early postwar period
…announced the formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Pending the report of the committee, Jewish immigration would continue at the rate of 1,500 persons per month above the 75,000 limit set by the 1939 white paper. A plan of provincial autonomy for Arabs and Jews was worked out in…
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position on Jewish immigration
- In Israel: Immigration and conflict
In Britain, the newly elected government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, alarmed by growing violence in Palestine between Arabs and Jewish immigrants, decided to end the mandate, but it was unable to do so in a peaceful way. Attlee and his foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, came under pressure by the…
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