“Most of the alien doctors… are not always in accordance with the professional etiquette of this country.” Source: Sir Martin Gilbert: British Policy towards Jewish Refugees 1933 to 1946; Miriam Rothschild and John Foster Human Rights Trust
At a ceremony in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford is presented with the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle on his 75th birthday. Henry Ford is the first American recipient of this, an honor created a year earlier by Adolf Hitler. This is the highest honor Nazi Germany could give to any […]
Roger Makin, advisor to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: “I would view with dismay the possibility that Egypt, Iraq, turkey and Persia would work against us which they will do if we continue to allow Jewish immigration into Palestine on the present scale. The alienation of the Muslim countries might be total.” Source: Sir Martin Gilbert: […]
“Tension at night is still strong. Every qualified comrade has his rifle ready by his bedside in the event of an alarm. Work goes on as usual. This evening, we had a Hanukah celebration with a rich program of feuilletons and description of our life here. On Guard Night fell, and the skies above were […]
EMPIRES CHECK ARAB THREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE PUT DOWN UNREST STIRRED IN EAST AND WEST BY A DREAM OF DOMINION London, Nov. 6—Europe has all but forgotten the story of those fearless horsemen with the new creed who swept from the deserts of Arabia thirteen centuries ago when most of the “civilized” Western World was […]
“RENEWED VIOLENCE WORRIES PALESTINE, DEPRESSION IS INTENSIFIED AS ARAB TERRORISTS RESUME ACTIVITIES AFTER LULL MANY URGE STERN STEPS. The Palestine Government’s stringent measures of Oct. 1st in deporting the members of the Arab High Committee and depriving the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amen El Husseini, of his offices served only temporarily to frighten a few […]
“Sporadic terrorism continues throughout the first nine months of 1937, developing in the late autumn into a second phase of the rebellion. The Acting District commissioner of Galilee (Lewis Yelland) and his police escort were fatally shot by Arab gunmen in Nazareth on the 26th of September. Five days later the government announced that they […]
“Britain immediately issued a warrant for al- Husseini arrest and shortly later outlawed the Arab Higher Committee (of which al- Husseini was chairman). Al- Husseini escaped arrest and eventually made his way to Syria which became the committee’s new base of operations. In the absence of the established leadership, more radical politicians assumed control of […]
“The announcement contained in the Royal (Peel) Commission July last that His Majesty’s Government proposed to limit Jewish immigration in all categories to a total of 8,000 persons for an eight months’ period ― August 1937 to March 1938 ― was the subject of considerable discussion at the session of the Permanent Mandates Commission held […]
“PALESTINE ARABS REPEAT DEMANDS OF ACTION OF PALESTINE ARAB CONGRESS EXPECTED TO INCREASE TENSION OVER PARTITION PROGRAM. FOREIGN AID IS CHARGED.” “The demand heard from Arab politicians in Palestine during the past eighteen years re-echoed again late this week in the form of resolutions adopted at the final session of the pan-Arab congress. The resolutions […]